No I guess I don't. How can they be just as evil before having nukes as after?
We have nukes. Does having nukes make us evil? I have a gun. Does having a gun make me evil? With our without a gun I am either good or evil. Without the gun I can't shoot you, but it doesn't affect whether I'm good or evil, just what I can do about it.
Capability vs character. Pretty fundamental and quite simple. Unfortunately our education system has been selling the notion that objects are inherently evil, guns causing people to kill, SUVs killing people in accidents, not the drivers who fail to control them, cars causing global warming, etc., that basic concepts get obscured.