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Summary: The Important Questions
There has been much press and TV coverage devoted to the
technical aspects of the Three Mile Island accident, but
very little to its moral aspects. Yet the really important
questions about nuclear power are ethical:
- The use of lies and deception by the nuclear industry
in order to manipulate public opinion, and in order to
use people, even kill people, for the benefit of
that industry.
- The experimentation on people without their knowledge
or consent.
- The acceptance of random murder and denial of the
inalienable right to life as the cost of “progress.”
- The genetic degradation of the human species, vs. our
minimum responsibility to protect our species' genes from
injury.
- The need to hold bureaucrats and industry employees
personally accountable and responsible for implementing
hazardous and even murderous policies, even if such
policies are advocated by Congress and the President.
Yes, Poisoned Power
is a sad story about the absence of ethics and morals
in men. But it is not too late to jolt society into
realization of what is going on, and what is in the
future if humans do not improve in the very basic and
minimum principles of morality. Either we improve, or
the future is dismal indeed. We hope that
Poisoned Power upsets you
enough to make you work toward such improvement.
—John W. Gofman, San Francisco, June 1979
From the 1979 Forward of
Poisoned Power, The Case Against Nuclear
Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island, by John
Gofman, Ph.D., M.D. and Arthur R. Tamplin, Ph.D.
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