Successful space travel and rocket science being a contemporary of war and violence is only strange if you find toys to be fascinating objects. And didn't a human land on the Moon because of a cold war between two superpowers?

What's strange is acknowledgement of the possibility of scarce resources necessitating conflict is considered invalid criticism that needs to be silenced or given negative reviews by the majority opinion. But that's not really surprising when things like ascetic religion were created as a reaction to what is popularly called criminal or antisocial mental models of the world.

Von Braun designed both the V-2 and the Saturn V.

Alice: All I want is to stand tall, looking at the sun.

Bob: All I want is to stand tall, looking at the sun.

Alice: Your shade hits me, Bob. Prepare to die.

As said Buddha has evil nature. It goes hand inn hand.