“Let’s beat our swords to plowshares plowshares to sundials!” - Edward Teller, probably

If it was him, he’d propose making a nuke so big he could use it to blast this canal by detonating it on the opposite side of the Earth.

I’d say there is quite a difference between adding wheels to a weapon in order to make it somewhat more mobile, and adding a weapon to a normally unarmed vehicle in order to give it some firepower.