He partly answers this in the article: “because if I didn’t, someone else would”. He states himself that it’s not a convincing argument to some. But it surely

He partly answers this in the article: “because if I didn’t, someone else would”. He states himself that it’s not a convincing argument to some. But it surely carries some weight: in developing nuclear weapons many scientists made the same calculation even though the invention is a wicked one, in and of itself.