"Atheist sure do like to build those atomic weapons though huh?"

Before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki raids, some of the scientists involved in the Manhattan Project had pleaded with President Harry S Truman not to turn their invention loose.

"The success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past," they wrote in the "Franck Report", signed by seven scientists.

The group urged Truman to lay on a demonstration of the bomb´s awful power to scare Japan into surrendering, thereby saving tens of thousands of lives.

However, Truman a Baptist adherent, signed the order. So, unfortunately, it could be said that the Christians are responsible for us all having to confront the modern threat from nuclear proliferation, and fears terrorists could one day threaten a US city with a rudimentary nuclear device.