1st principle of the Technetronic Society: "Something ought to be done because it is technically possible to do it." E.g: If it is possible to build nuclear weapons, they must be built even if they might destroy us all. 2nd principle: "Maximal efficiency & output over all else"
Not sure. Nuclear power was conceived due to the anticipated exhaustion of fossil fuels, on which industrial civilization has been built. (I agree it was a mistake, but geopolitics and path effects prevented desertec style alternatives.)
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I got very sceptical about such supposed drives behind the development of operational nuclear tech, after reading extensively about Edward Teller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller … and others like him. Mental Illness, perhaps. But certainly not foresight of the post-fossil fuel age.
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Especially Teller was extremely concerned about global warming due to fossil fuel emissions, as early as the 1950ies!
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The other direction played a role, too: the development of nuclear weapons required a nuclear industry. Chernobyl and Fukushima had been foreseen, but advocates were in denial. (OTOH, without nukes we'd probably had wars between US and SU, China and Russia, India and Pakistan.)
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