Bear makes a good point.
In all honesty, I sometimes wonder if we over analyse these things and in reality it's actually incompetence that we are getting from our ruling forces. After all, splitting the atom carried a huge risk of a chain reaction that could destroy the world. They just couldn't be sure, so what did they do? They split the atom.
During the war they trained dolphins to place mines one ships, but didn't take into account that they couldn't tell the difference between enemy and allied ships.