Does anyone truly believe that if the US had not developed and used nuclear weapons that they would not exist today? Give me a fucking break. The Germans were the first to begin development, along with their V1 and V2 rockets as predecessors for eventual deployment. It was German scientists and engineers who headed up both the US and Russian development of nuclear weapons and rockets. Do you think the Russians would have not developed nukes if we had not beat them to it? And how do you think WWII would have turned out if the Germans had completed development a few years earlier? Hitler killed over 6 million jews. Do you think he would have hesitated to nuke Stalingrad or Moscow? Just because we were the first to develop nukes, doesn't mean we were the only ones working on them. Wake up!