Reply #3: And it makes a nice RED HERRING, too

[txlibdem]

Again the usual suspects. The anti-nuke crowd at DU can always be counted on for a laugh as they try and try to tie safe, reliable nuclear power with terrible, terrible weapons. The facts just don't match your hyperbole.

Iran has no nuclear power plants yet they are said to be working on a bomb. How could this be if your premise is correct? Answer: the two are separate and based solely on the intent of those working with the technology. Any technology that has peaceful uses can be turned into a weapon of war somehow. Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was so shocked that his invention was used in war that he funded the Nobel Peace Prize --he intended his dynamite to help people only and some jerks used it for war. The main ingredients of napalm, the deadly fiery bombs used in the Vietnam War among others, are petroleum based (aka OIL). So by your logic we should immediately ban oil, gasoline and diesel fuels. After all, these peaceful technologies can be perverted for terrible warlike purposes.

The silicon that makes up solar cells also goes into computer chips, and computer chips help guide missiles to their target. So we must ban both solar power and computers immediately.

Where does the guilt by association end?