{"id":75687,"date":"2022-12-14T02:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75687"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:10:50","slug":"our-nuclear-alternate-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/12\/14\/our-nuclear-alternate-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Nuclear Alternate Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/scqLo8jswL8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Big Car<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 9 Apr 2021<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, as the Cold War was heating up and children were being urged to &#8220;duck and cover&#8221; from nuclear weapons, car companies seriously proposed powering their cars using lead-lined nuclear reactors. It seems like madness today, but while the world saw the threat of nuclear war, they also saw the seemingly limitless potential from nuclear power. 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