 The endless wars are essential, of course, because they are needed to feed the voracious and murderous greed of arms manufacturers, many of which also produce nuclear weapons. They carry some of the biggest moneybags on Capitol Hill, and their puppets there are only too willing to reward them. And in our world of anti-nuclear activism, it's the insistence on funding and promoting nuclear power against all the empirical evidence that demonstrates this is the worst possible choice for climate mitigation.