the dangers of radioactivity theme
The adverse health effects of exposure to radiation are featured.
Examples
Little Willie Harding passed away from radiation poisoning after having been exposed to a natural source of radioactivity on the Scottish mores in "X the Unknown" (1956).
157 total · 1 choice · 41 major · 115 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| voy5x21 | choice | The Malon dumping their toxic waste in other peoples' back yards. |
| ahh2x09 | major | The plot turns on a trio of ex-cons opening a container of radioactive cobalt that they'd inadvertently stolen. The radiation from the exposed cobalt posed a danger to the local community. |
| ent1x06 | major | Some sort of space radiation destroyed wiped out the deep space Earth colony and its civilization. |
| movie: Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) | major | Radioactive fallout from the first hydrogen bomb test produced a pair of radiation-mutated giant sea crabs that posed a threat to continued civilized life on Earth. |
| movie: Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) | major | Doc Grayson speculated that the intelligent, giant leeches were produced as a result of regular leeches being exposed to radiation. |
| movie: Beginning of the End (1957) | major | Agricultural scientist Dr. Ed Wainwright grew gigantic vegetables using radiation. Unfortunately, some locust that fed on the grew to enormous proportions and destroyed and entire town. Dr. Ed Wainwright's assistant became a deaf mute after experimenting with radiation. |
| movie: Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) | major | A cosmic ray filtering layer in the atmosphere had been destroyed by dust from nuclear tests. Cosmic radiation bombarded the Earth, turning many people into mutants, and others sterile. |
| movie: Day the World Ended (1955) | major | People exposed to radiation mutated into a new race of super monsters. |
| movie: First Man into Space (1959) | major | Dan Milton Prescott was transformed into a lumbering, murderous, mutant monster, it was presumed because of exposure to cosmic radiation, after returning from a trip into outer space. |
| movie: Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) | major | Fallout from the atomic bombing of Hirosaki mutated Frankenstein's heart and it eventually transformed into a giant monster. |