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In reply to the discussion: Our Atomic Dominoes are Falling [View all]FBaggins
(26,907 posts)He also said (in the same speech) "it is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and with great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.
You can't pretend that the context for all of those things is nuclear fission as a source of electricity.
It was clearly intended as an inspirational vision of a brighter future in general.
The USAEC (which he chaired at the time) had just proclaimed that they hoped to get fission power down to the cost of more traditional electricity sources. The "attempt to rewrite history" is yours.