It’s funny how most of the discussions below have as a basis that people will always behave rationally. As if the threat of total destruction will always stop a particular cause of action.
Putting the fate on mankind in this basic premise is the flaw behind the entire building of such bombs in the first place.
Don’t work on terrible weapons. If you’re smart enough to create them you’re smart enough not to misuse them.
But the last act in creation is relinquishing control.
You’re putting them in the hands of people who aren’t smart enough to build them. And you don’t get to choose who that is.
The US president who bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn’t even fully understand that he was bombing civilian targets. How could he be so stupid? Do you even have to ask? Think quietly for five minutes about the average intelligence of politicians. About their ability to think calmly and consider facts when making decisions. If you do that you’ll never work on weapon systems again.
Putting the fate on mankind in this basic premise is the flaw behind the entire building of such bombs in the first place.
Nothing short of idiocy.