You know, I don't usually like this quote when people deploy it, because it rarely applies. Frankly I find it questionable even in the original movie. But it applies here like gangbusters: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

There are a lot of commenters here who seem to be operating on a subconscious presumption that being "the best we could do" is some sort of defense. It's not. If the best you can do is not good enough, don't deploy it.