Is High Energy Physics Weapons Research?

"Long ago I stumbled on an analogy that still seems relevant to me: business-cycle macro is to economics in general in something like the way that nuclear bombs (and to some extent, to be fair, nuclear power) are to high-energy physics. I’m sure that very few physicists working on the mysteries of the universe trouble themselves at all thinking about how to make things go boom. Yet the reason the field continues to receive public funding is in large part precisely the fact that once upon a time physicists did, indeed, find a way to make things go boom, and you never know what they might come up with in the future."

Paul Krugman

I have an opinion; the answer is NO, and to the extent that current Theoretical Work on High Energy Physics, is not weapons research, the support from the Government to this activity  has dwindled.