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Re: Nemo Goes Nuclear

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:55:47 +0100 (MET)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 Rfbagby~at~aol.com wrote:

> While many of Michael's points in his analysis are right, another reason
> for having Verne "prophesy" something like nuclear power is it helps the
> contemporary audience cope with it. Thus if Nemo was playing with nukes over
> a century ago, there's less reason to fear we'll blow ourselves up with it
> today (since it didn't happen "then".)

I don't know about the public's feelings in America, but in the
Netherlands many people thought nuclear power was the ultimate source of
energy, and hardly thought it dangerous - until the 60s or 70s at
least. Then the fear of atomic weapons grew, and there were demonstrations
against placing American nukes in our country. So the point of view
shifted a lot, and in the 50s a nuclear Nautilus would just be seen as a
splendid high-tech thing, and only later it would be associated with
possible danger.

Garmt.
Received on Mon 14 Feb 2000 - 13:56:31 IST

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