[ME-262]

We would be better off if the hippies had stuck to doing drugs and left our nuclear power industry unmolested.

[2001convSVT]

It can all be centered on their irrational fear of nuclear anything. I have read that the pivotal even for that 60’s generation was the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962. After that event brought us to the brink of nuclear armageddon the fear of the bomb was imprinted upon anything nuclear, hence anything nuclear is bad.