If you're one of those people who blame science for nuclear weapons...come off it already. Scientists didn't invent the power. They only discovered it. That shit was there already.
I'm well aware that "it sucks." I agree: it sucks. It would probably be a lot nicer for us all, if only there were not this indescribably violent power locked within the nuclei of atoms, just waiting for a clever monkey with a key to come along. It would be nicer, that is, assuming that our good ol' sun would still be in business under those conditions. But it seems that's the price we pay for it.
If you believe in God, blame God. If you don't believe in God, then blame the universe, in all its dizzying array of fundamentally inscrutable ineffabilities. But if you're stupid enough to believe that it was ever possible (barring a species-eradicating natural catastrophe) that humanity would not unlock and exploit this particular box of Pandoriana, then all I can say is you are very, very stupid. Or else, you are given to esoteric sci-fi speculations involving counterintuitively anti-adaptive alternative evolution scenarios within which humanity would for some reason have naturally-selectively elected to evolve too stupid to figure out such simple shit as that. Which, yes, I guess that as a concept, it's conceivable. If you go in for what you might call natural-historical fiction.
But that's pretty far-fetched, and more than a little impractical. More likely, if you're stupid enough to believe that, it's just because you're stupid.
Ponder your stupidity. Taste it. Embrace the fact of it. Live at peace with it. Quit bugging others with it, maybe.
Too much to ask, maybe.
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