The World's Greatest Superheroes Part 10: Nuclear Crisis
1980 was a banner year for nuclear paranoia . It was certainly a major issue of the presidential elections of 1980 , which hover in the background of this storyline. In addition, the year previously, the blockbuster film The China Syndrome had been raking in box office and critical acclaim for its deeply concerned depiction of shoddy construction and narrowly-averted disasters at nuclear power plants in the United States. And just when the film began to receive backlash and criticism from advocates of nuclear power , who accused the film of sensationalist and inaccurate portrayals of the plants in question -- whoopsie-doodle , there was a meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power plant , promptly followed by a massive waste spill at a uranium mill in New Mexico . All of this was certainly on the mind of Paul Levitz as he scripted a story in which Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane receive an insider tip about a fuel spill at a New Mexico power plant. After Super...