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And though they often invoked a higher power to demonstrate their humility before the wonders of Creation, this didn't stop 1950s scientific heroes from evangelizing in their own way about what American audiences should either embrace, or shun in post-war life.

Next to aerospace, the burgeoning consumer goods market and communism, one of the major shapers of the decade was, of course, nuclear energy, as promised through Eisenhower's domesticizing Atoms for Peace program.

And, while the media did its part to make this technology seem both safe and inevitable, in reality, U.S. nuclear plants owed their entire existence to the Price-Anderson Act of 1957, which imposed a meager cap on public compensation in the event of an accident.