@admitsWrongIfProven The man who first split the atom, Ernest Ruthorford, would have no way of knowing the death that his discoveries would lead to. Not only the death, but the constant ever present threat of mutually assured destruction, something that was never seen in his time. He didn't live to see the effects of even a nuclear bomb, and I wonder if he did, whether he would see his discovery as a feat of humanity, or a discovery of terror