[pjc50]

The environmental movement went anti-nuclear over two very real things: the dumping of waste at sea, and nuclear testing - both because of the threat and the waste products ending up in the atmosphere. This was the era of direct action, culminating in the French government carrying out a state-sponsored terrorist attack that sunk the Rainbow Warrior and killed a photographer who was on board.

[freeflight]

Decades later, it turns out those concerns were not completely unfounded [0].

[0] https://qz.com/1163140/us-nuclear-tests-killed-american-civi...