I think you're right. The anti-nuclear activists of the 20th century focused as much on nuclear weapons as nuclear energy, frequently conflating the two. Fur

I think you're right. The anti-nuclear activists of the 20th century focused as much on nuclear weapons as nuclear energy, frequently conflating the two. Furthermore these activists were almost always left wing and had obvious affinity for their idealized vision of what the Soviet Union was. I think the Soviets fomented anti-nuclear sentiment in the west during the Cold War to give themselves an edge in the nuclear arms buildup.