The threat of nuclear war precipitated the development of a network which could withstand widespread destruction. That's not the same as genocide (as that impl

The threat of nuclear war precipitated the development of a network which could withstand widespread destruction. That's not the same as genocide (as that implies something systematic), but is does seem safe to say that having the Internet (or at least got started having one) is more or less a direct consequence of developing nuclear weapons. I'm not saying such weapons (or the destruction they were designed to create) were a good thing, but war (or the threat thereof) has been a large driving force of tech development (not to mention advances in surgery/medicine).