War has been more of a positive factor for Human development than a negative

"The Atomic bomb may have been an instrument of death but it paved the way to better understandings in nuclear physics for more civilized technologies such as nuclear energy. "The average cost of fuel for a nuclear power plant (as of 2014) is 0.76 cents / kWh, the maintenance costs 1.64 cents / kWh, and waste management is 0.1 cents / kWh (1). 2008 estimations for the cost to build nuclear power plants went as high as $9 billion (2)! Adjusted for inflation that would be $9,941,998,021.39 (3)! Out of all of the United States' 100 nuclear reactors, they produced 798 billion kWh (2014)(4). With this in mind, that is an average of $6,064,800,000 for fuel, $13,087,200,000 for maintenance, and waste management is $798,000,000. Add it all together and you will get $19,950,000,000, divide this by 100 so it is per nuclear reactor, $199,500,000, then if you divide this by 798, you will get $750,000. Now, split the building cost by the average energy production per reactor, anualy (7.98 billion kWh), for the answer of $1,245,864,414 / 1 billion kWh, and then divide this by the average lifespan of a nuclear reactor, 80 years (5), for the answer of $15,573,305 / 1 billion kWh. So altogether, the total cost of making nuclear energy is $16,323,305 / 1 billion kWh. Now, I will compare the cost of nuclear energy to wind. There are no fuel costs, maintenance costs anualy 2% of original turbine price (6) (I will get into this later), and no waste management. A 2.5 MW wind turbine can produce 6 million kWh anualy (7). A 2.5 MW wind turbine costs an average of $22,000 (8), 2% of this is $440, generating 6 million kWh annually, this is .007 cents / kWh. Multiply this by a billion to get $70,000 / kWh. $22,000 divided by 6 million gets you $3,667 / million kWh. Then, divide this by the wind turbine's life span, 25 years (9), to get $146.68 / million kWh. Multiply both sides by 1,000 to get $149,600 / 1 billion kWh. Finally, ad $70,000 to get a total result of $239,600 / billion kWh. As you can see there is a huge difference in cost effectiveness. So, was nuclear energy really positive? Sorry for all that math, I love doing equations and research like this. "Take the Enigma code breaking machine for an example, this was an invention that can be deemed to be the foundation to computers. "The enigma code breaker was relatively unimportant in the history of computers. The first mechanical computer was the Difference Engine, the first programmable computer was the Z1, the first electric programmable computer was the Colossus, the first digital computer was the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, and so on (10). "Should the Roman Empire not have entered any wars with any nation, they would not have spread their technologies through most of Europe and North Africa and the develop of the continent would probably have been a lot slower. "The roman empire was formed by war, by the battle Actium (11). If there was peacetime, different peaceful nations in Europe would be able to create there own useful technologies (for agriculture, building, etc. ), and spread them across europe via trade. "the First World War introduced X-Rays into mainstream use, Wrist-watches, artificial meats, zips and pilot communications were all either discovered in WW1 or brought into mass-use. "X-ray's were invented in 1895, and the inventer received the Nobel prize for physics in 1901 (12). WWI expanded the use of the x-ray in military usage. The wrist watch was created by Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1810 (13). Artificial meat was invented by John Harvey Kellogg in 1896 (14), the zipper was invented in 1851 by Elias Howe (15), and air traffic control was invented in 1922 (16), after WWI. "Hospital Conditions were improved during the Crimean War""These stations were poorly staffed, with insufficient supplies, and the medical and sanitary conditions were awful. " (17). Clearly not. So in reality, war has not had much of a positive effect, causing many deaths, and only the military related wide spread usage of different inventions. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I apologize for how late I posted it. I am out of time, sorry for being so late. Have been piled with stuff to do. "i cri i cri everytim"Sources(1) . http://www.nei.org...;(2) . http://www.ucsusa.org...;(3) . http://www.usinflationcalculator.com...;(4) . http://world-nuclear.org...;(5) . http://www.scientificamerican.com...;(6) . http://www.windmeasurementinternational.com...;(7) . http://www.ewea.org...;(8) . http://www.renewablegreenenergypower.com...;(9) . http://www.edf-er.com...;(10) . http://www.computerhope.com...;(11) . http://www.ancient.eu...;(12) . http://www.medicaldiscoverynews.com...;(13) . https://en.wikipedia.org...;(14) . http://www.motherjones.com...;(15) . https://en.wikipedia.org...;(16) . https://en.wikipedia.org...;(17) . http://understandinguncertainty.org...;