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by jostmey 3255 days ago
Funny, but war sometimes accelerates specific technologies. The atomic age was brought about by WWII. I'm not saying war is good... the advances at one field can come at the expense of scientific research across a broad number of other fields
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You have a point, but for controlled fusion the applications look only civil to me. Military application/uncontrolled fusion/H bomb already exists!
> war sometimes accelerates specific technologies

Yes, specifically weapons.

But also generally useful things like container shipping and jet engines.