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I also believe it was idiotic.

Focusing too much on negative aspect of thing will lead you nowhere.

Manhattan project gave >500 research papers. Gave us Iodine 131 and other radio nucleotide which we use in medicine. And gave us lasting peace. So was it bad or not?

Is gene editing bad? was the internet bad? Was the dude who invented round wheel bad?

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Yes, using atomic bombs was bad. As others say it is debatable if it helped end the (already won?) war. And in any case, _lasting_ _piece_ where? Are middle east and Africa not part of this world?

I find your comment is entirely missing the point and low effort. Asking whether random techniques, inventions, inventors were "bad" or not makes us much sense as asking:

Is the sun bad? Were dinosaurs bad? Are the aliens bad? Is life bad?

| And gave us lasting peace

I think the jury is still out on that. Or rather the trial is still underway.

I believe that the USA and USSR/Russia have been at war with some other country directly or by proxy more or less always since the end of WW2. Yet we had no other major world war because of the mutual assured destruction. That kind of peace might not last forever but it was an unusually long period. A wonderful change for the best if you lived in Europe, no change at all if you lived in one of the countries that took the turn to be the target of one or both the powers. Add regional powers operating on their own will now.

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