Do you think if it wasn't for Albert Einstein encouraging FDR to begin atomic weapons research, other physicists studying nuclear physics, and rumors of Nazis developing an atomic bomb and after the 2 atom bombs were dropped on Japan Ground. That countries wouldn't have nuclear weapons today? I mean doesn't the past affect the future? (Sry if these questions seem weird. Maybe you can try and rephase it and try to figure out what im asking while u read this) One other thing. Even if someone didnt discover splitting an atom can release tons of energy and can cause mass destruction do you think someone was bound too anyways? I also heard that us Humans discovered a power in which we were not capable of using or even prepared for its kinda power. I'll make an analogy of like giving a rocket launcher or bazooka to a 6 year old and he doesn't know what to do with it or you can't trust him with it. Well its the same with humans. We harnessed this power that G-D didnt want us to have cause we humans don't know know how to use the weapon and plus we can't be trusted with it. The case with Iran right now. Irresponsible human beings over there that want to use nuclear weapons as a mean to kill millions of other humans with it. (well about to.) This is why in the first place some ppl wish we nvr should of tampered with atoms and other big name chemicals or nuclear tech. Even if it means using Nuclear Technology in good ways in society such as Medical Stuff (i.e. X-Rays, CT Scan, Ultrasound, MRI and Cat scan), appliances, and means of transportation.

Little bio involving Einstein and his Nuclear story:
Einstein surrendered his lifelong pacifism in 1939, when he wrote a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt encouraging the President to begin atomic weapon research. He felt uneasy about the rise in power of Nazi Germany and was told that German physicists had split the uranium atom.

It was on March 25, 1945 that Einstein sent a second letter to President Roosevelt warning him of the cataclysmic and destructive outcome that would result if an atomic bomb were ever actually used. President Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 and the letter lay on his desk, unopened!

The first atomic bombs were successfully tested in July, 1945. Then on August 6th, 1945, an American plane dropped a bomb onto the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing or injuring 140,000 people. Three days later on August 9th, the Americans dropped a plutonium bomb over Nagasaki, killing 60,000 men, women and children.

When Einstein heard of the massive death and destruction, he put his head in his hands. “I could burn my fingers that I wrote that first letter to President Roosevelt,” he said. Einstein was burdened by the misuse of that which he loved the most, a mathematical expression of nature. To his friend Linus Pauling, another famous scientist, Einstein said: “I made one mistake in my life when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt advocating that the atomic bomb should be built. But perhaps I can be forgiven because we all felt that there was a high probability that the Germans were working on this problem and would use the atomic bomb to become the master race.”

i am always wondering why we care so much about 140,000 deaths when in Africa there are dozens of million of people being killed with mischettis (my best try ) not guns, well some guns, not nukes, not atom bombs, just knives and we dont care at all

I haven't the foggiest idea where you are going with any of this other than to inform us all that you read a bio of Einstein.

Nuclear energy has absolutley nothing to do with x-rays, MRIs, etc.

We are here in the Atomic World and whether or not we should be or would be had history transpired differently is a mute point. We are here.

Well to your statement about "Atomic World", thats what I'm trying to say. We are and since the Cold War been in a Atomic world. We are entering a Nuclear Age in which every country wants their hands on nuclear technology and nuclear weapons. And at some point, even though we can't do anything about it; we gotta be concerned in some way cause theres good reasons to use nuclear technology and there bad reasons to use Nuclear technology. We most certainly gotta wry about Nuclear Bombs cause they can get in the wrong hands and eventually it will be used as a mean to cause holocausts over the whole globe.

Which is the whole point of the War in Iraq and the ongoing 'Word' War with Iran.

Nukes in the hands of the irresponsible, or mad, or threatening, is a scenario that all rational people want not to happen.

Yea I most certainly agree with u. But I also feel the UN, Europe and the US aint doing enough to disarm Iran and stop its nuclear ambitions. Diplomacy, UN nuclear inspections, sanctions and pressure from the world still wont stop Iran from using its nuclear weapons and won't take away its nuclear capabilities it now has.

Iran's nuclear capabilities are nothing to worry about. If I'm not mistaken, they've yet to even develop a warhead which can be delivered by a Shahab-3 missile.

Left unchecked, however, Iran WOULD develop capabilities rapidly, but of course the USA will interject long before that happens.