It's a lot of "what if"s. Let's say the nuclear bomb didn't exist, where would we be now? Good arguments can be made in every direction. I think the threat of

It's a lot of "what if"s. Let's say the nuclear bomb didn't exist, where would we be now? Good arguments can be made in every direction. I think the threat of two new nuclear superpowers shocked Europe's non-Russian powers into an uneasy cohesion and resulted in a huge reduction in European warfare that had been rattling on and off for centuries. But I could totally follow and appreciate arguments to the contrary. This is why I think it's both unfair and unproductive to "put" anything on the people of the past. They did what they did, but they're gone. IMHO, no-one was a "shitty" person solely because they felt unease over working in the Manhattan Project.