You do have a talent for ignoring the point.

Guns can be used to feed your family or murder your neighbor.

No survival expert would be without a knife, and the same goes for every back-alley mugger.

Roads and bridges can transport ambulances or tanks.

Helicopters carry patients and munitions.

The Orangutan was sort of half-right; scientific advances are neutral. Sentient beings are not.

Nope. Both had considered their own a-bomb projects, but estimated – probably correctly – that they would take too long (Germany) or consume too many urgently needed resources (Japan).

Secret from Americans, anyway. Soviet spies infiltrated the program and Germany and Japan were working on their own, so clearly they didn’t find the idea all that outrageous.

And I did wonder, if Charlton Heston had seen a half buried Captain’s Cove miniature golf course instead of the Statue of Liberty would the effect have been any different?

“Aw, you blew it up. Dammit. Let’s see if the bowling alley is still open.”

The idea that there is some â??secretâ? about how to make nuclear weapons is not correct. The idea that a country can be prevented from acquiring nuclear weapons short of invasion and occupation is also not correct.