[djohnston]

Wat? Who is building cruise missiles? Who is building bombs? Not engineers?

[stackghost]

Within the aerospace engineering profession those jobs are highly controversial and the subject of perennial debate.

[djohnston]

I suppose my point was that it’s detached from reality to say that real engineers refuse to build “dangerous” systems.

All of the most dangerous systems are built by engineers and outside the most progressive circles it’s quite obvious that these systems must exist amidst the anarchy of geopolitics.