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In the course of saving Metropolis from an experiment gone out of control, hes become irradiated.
No, it cant be!
says one of the scientists hes just saved.
Your whole body radioactive … forever!
The day is saved!
Its an almost unthinkably horrific fate, made all the more terrifying by radiations invisibility and its ubiquity.
Radiation is a force humanity has harnessed, but also one that threatens unspeakable destruction should that harness slip.
Weve seen the awful costs of the nuclear age.
Now we have to live with them.
ThatAdventures of Supermanepisode arrives at a happy ending, but only after suggesting radiations irreversible effects.
Elsewhere, movies made more direct acknowledgment of this fear.
They connect in the still-scarred city of Hiroshima, where shes traveled to appear in a movie about peace.
Whats come before is never really settled.
Sometimes an unthinkable act can be a mercy.
Of course, you didnt have to live through nuclear war to die of radiation poisoning.
The nuclear industry dismissed it as irresponsible upon its release in 1979.
The Atomic Industrial Forum evensent critics packets of pro-nuclear informationin the hope of heading off bad press.
Twelve days later, the Three Mile Island accident took place.
The2016 episode ofThe Americansin which virtually everyone seems to be watching didnt have to exaggerate for effect.
You cant feel it.
And you cant taste it.
Its going through you like an X-ray.
Right into your cells.
Four years later, he signed theINF treaty.
