Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement Research Project

• doesn't like the current history on the environmental movement in the 60's

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• the root of a lot of concern was the radiation testing:
  • 'americans could not trust their own milk' because of the radioactive fallout contaminating the dairy pastures
  • there from the beginning!
• hey, also a mention [cite/t:@sputnik [KBxResearchProjectPlanningPtTwo.html][KBxResearchProjectPlanningPtTwo]]!
  • shook the sense of comfort that american's had, about war but also about the environment
• pollution was thought of as a big deal after this time period
  • push towards socialism
  • hatred towards cities
  • possible primary source: Life presidential interview in 1960
• johnson agenda in the wake of the new deal
• great society also had a focus on the environment
• The League of Woman Voters also played a big role
  • lobbied against nuclear weapons
    • need to remember that much of the sentiment toward NW is what led to and allowed the sentiment toward NE
  • "Pure Milk […] Not Poison"
  • very similar sentiment as towards pesticides
• this is all about nuclear weapons, not energy..

deaths per megawatt comparison all the deaths from major accidents talk about three mile island all nuclear waste can be stored in a football field nine feet high, and a huge amount is reusable