History of nuclear energy

It's truly shocking for me to learn about this. How the project Atom for Peace came about was not an extreme surprise for me. Here is an excerpt from the article from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

After the two bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there is an aggressive movement to push forth the peaceful use of atomic energy through the Atomic Energy Commission, which was controlled by the military. How interesting. Anyways, the number of US nuclear stockpile increased from 1,000 to 22,000 by the end of Eisenhower's administration. If you think it is because of nuclear race, see the graph below. And to the nuclear deterrence argument, the US has always had more nuclear stockpile during the cold war.

And the nuclear weapons capability of India and Pakistan from their nuclear energy technology is truly worrisome. There is no justification to use nuclear energy over the renewable energy such as wind, water and solar considering how much CO2 emission was produced and the waste from nuclear energy.

Source: http://stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/susenergy2030.html