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I'm really, really surprised that you implied "we" regularly wish we hadn't discovered nulcear. How isn't it clear that nukes are what stopped us from getting into WWIII? Especially after cold war and what happened in Ukraine?

The benefit of nuclear energy, which is already tremendous, is neglectable compared to that.



> How isn't it clear that nukes are what stopped us from getting into WWIII?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls

We've been lucky.




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