Reply #24: It's hardly the same thing

[Dogmudgeon]

Nearly any technology can be weaponized. Napalm is made from petroleum products. Military aircraft use propellers to fly to bombing targets. Alexander the Great even used reflected sunlight to set the Persians' ships on fire.

Likewise, the recent anti-nuclearist talking point, that nuclear weapons were developed before nuclear reactors, is false. Development of nuclear energy for power began in the 1930s; the Bomb came a little later.

No thanks? -- for weapons -- I stand with you there.

--p!