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.

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. As with Three Mile Island, so with Chernobyl, and now Fukushima: some technical aspects are reported but virtually nothing from commercial media about the moral and ethical considerations of the costs of playing with the Poison Fire.