> Nuclear weapons, like guns and cars, are just tools, and themselves not inherently evil. True! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions#Sovi

> Nuclear weapons, like guns and cars, are just tools, and themselves not inherently evil. True! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions#Soviet_Union:_Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_National_Economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosions#Sov... / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare Beyond the obvious (digging big holes fast) there are proposals for using them to extinguish particularly bad oil/gas fires (perhaps Centralia, Pennsylvania could be a use case?), stimulating natural gas production (this one is likely to be unpopular these days), and destroying large amounts of chemical weapons (and while you're at it, a nuke ;)).