100 tonnes of plutonium
Page September 22nd, 2007
A few years ago, I came across ep.tc, where you can find a most amazing variety of propaganda comic books, starting back in the 1950s. One of them is “The Atomic Revolution“, published in 1957. In it, you can learn all about nuclear physics, starting with early twentieth century discoveries, and moving quickly on to… you guessed it, World War II:
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Being propaganda, of course the WWII nuclear weapon cheerleading ends with: “… the Japanese city of Nagasaki was almost completely wiped out by the first atomic bomb…”.
The book concludes with a rosy view of the future…
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Where, presumably, there is a way to magically make all of that waste disappear…
… and not end up with a situation so dire that it isn’t just us eco-nerds sounding the alarm.