What happens when you lock a dozen geeks with unlimited money in a room and tell them to make something? Of course you get a doomsday device. Okay, so the Manhattan Project was not the proudest moment in geek history, but was a terrifying moment of what intelligence can do. It unleashed the most destructive force in the hands of non-geeks a.k.a. military generals and what do those guys know. For all its destructive power, nuclear weapons have also led to nuclear power - technology, however controversial.