[arinlen]

> IMO: we had good enough nuclear weapons 50 years ago to (...)

The money pouring into research disproves this.

In fact, it makes no sense at all to clam that our collective understanding of a phenomenon is already satisfactory and all research was already done after a few years of the first real world test.

For context, the Oklahoma City bombing was a few decades into the past but it still motivates a great deal of research in multiple research paths, even though none of it is rocket science or involves cutting-edge physics.

[ok_dad]

> The money pouring into research disproves this.

Yea, because money always goes to the most important and most useful research! /s