Do you think the world would be better or worse if the Atomic bomb had never been invented?

The gut reaction is to say that we'd be better off without the Bomb, but we'd also have missed the spin-offs that followed the research.

The world would be a simpler place without it, of course, but since we can't put the genie back in the bottle we'd better learn how to live with it.

History. Proves that if a weapon is there, someone will use it