There was a nuclear badge in the boys scouts, and one kid actually got it, to the dismay of his mother. More generally, had nuclear not been demonized as part

There was a nuclear badge in the boys scouts, and one kid actually got it, to the dismay of his mother. More generally, had nuclear not been demonized as part of the fear of mutual destruction ideology (I’m not saying it was wrong), maybe we would have lived in a parallel world where tinkering with radioactive elements would have been more widespread, and innovation wouldn’t have stalled for 60 years. Maybe we’d have a lot of nuclear-in-a-box batteries by now.