One of my babies...

Don't fool yourself into thinking that your views are those of all of us. I certainly don't have any desire to work on weapons designed to maim and kill other human beings, indeed I would not do so.

I understand your position and frankly - I would work not on weapons either (but it is a fine line sometimes, surely you agree). Anyhow, I think many people that actually do this kind of work justify it by persuading themselves using arguments used by some of the people that worked/developed atomic/hydrogen weapons: "I'm only the technician doing this out of intellectual curiosity. What happens next is non of my business" (or more easily - plain nationalism). A lot of this work was outright brilliant, of course, and had many civilian/scientific implementations too, but the essence remains: I don't thing it is a nice thing to do, not can it be reconciled that easily.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that your views are those of all of us. I certainly don't have any desire to work on weapons designed to maim and kill other human beings, indeed I would not do so.

I understand your position and frankly - I would work not on weapons either (but it is a fine line sometimes, surely you agree). Anyhow, I think many people that actually do this kind of work justify it by persuading themselves using arguments used by some of the people that worked/developed atomic/hydrogen weapons: "I'm only the technician doing this out of intellectual curiosity. What happens next is non of my business" (or more easily - plain nationalism). A lot of this work was outright brilliant, of course, and had many civilian/scientific implementations too, but the essence remains: I don't thing it is a nice thing to do, not can it be reconciled that easily.

There are many typos in the previous post - sorry for that.

I don't thing it is a nice thing to do, not can it be reconciled that easily.

I am in agreement with you.

It's now clear that if we think this thing back through to first principles energy is actually to blame for everything. We should lock it all up and only let it out if it promises to appear slowly and gently as nice parts of the spectrum. Bunching itself up in to lumps of mass then mucking about with the speed of light is strictly forbidden.