There was a movie called The China Syndrome, starring Jane Fonda, that came out in 1979. It describes the aftermath of a nuclear meltdown and how parts of the reactor melted through the earth and all the way to China. What’s crazy about this, and what I never knew until I listened to Enlightment Now by Steven Pinker, was that the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster happened less than two weeks later. How crazy is that?!
