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"
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You probably know that this was not why nuclear weapons were built? While they carry an unacceptable risk of accidental total obliteration, they were meant to prevent conventional war between super powers, which was successful so far.
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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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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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Sadly, the general public tends to have little agency over their beliefs. This seems to be part of the human condition: we are the programmable species.
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