Rotblot's disassociation from it did not stop the project. The work continued at an increasing pace. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist in charge of the overall scientific effort in the Manhattan project. But once the awesome powers hidden in the interior of atoms were demonstrated, not only Oppenheimer but a very significant number of those involved in its development gave up nuclear weapons development. A few of the very prominent ones became foremost exponents of nuclear disarmament.
Conventional wisdom states that the way to defend a country is to arm it to the teeth.
This is what a large number of countries, including Israel, Iraq, Iran, Gulf States, Korea, Ethiopia, and the USSR have done. Their emphasis on armament to the exclusion of the institutions of civil society leads to the crumbling of the states from within. The collapse of the USSR in 1991 was a telling example of this. Although the USSR matched its adversaries in the excellence of their arms, missiles and satellites, it continuously lost ground in the production of goods for civil society. In the end the people revolted.