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The Atomic Age was a phrase used for a time in the 1950s in which it was believed that all power sources in the future would be atomic in nature. The Atomic Bomb ("A-bomb") would render all conventional explosives redundant and Nuclear Power plants would do the same for power sources such as Coal and Oil . There was a general feeling that everything would use a nuclear power source of some sort. This even included Car s, leading Ford to display the Ford Nucleon Concept Car to the public in 1958 . In the 1960s, the term was less common, but the concept remained. In the , there was even an Atomic Ballpoint Pen . Normally reputable experts predicted that thanks to the giant nuclear power stations of the near future Electricity would soon become as cheap as Water , or even cheaper, and that Electricity Meter s would be removed. Lew Kowarski , a former director of CERN , even recalled such references as ''Atomic cocktail waitresses''. The term was initially used in a positive, futuristic sense, but by the 1960s the threats posed by Nuclear Weapon s had begun to edge out nuclear power as the dominant motif of the atom. In the late 1970s , nuclear power was faced with economic difficulties and widespread public unease, coming to a head in the Three Mile Island accident in 1979 , which effectively killed the nuclear power industry for decades to come. As such, the label of the "Atomic Age" now connotes either a sense of Nostalgia or naïveté, depending on whom you ask. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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