The Social and Cultural Consequences of Nuclear Weapons

If World War II hadn't happened, the Americans never dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki would that have been better or worse for non-proliferation? It's hard to say all these counterfactuals I don't know but I do think the bomb would not have been built on such a hurried scale or schedule obviously they would not have had to rush. And yet given the destructive force that was clear at the very beginning, you know it's interesting some of the earliest thinking about the bomb was done by a couple of emigre, German Jewish physicists who were technically enemy aliens.