The Atomic Age
We split the atom, friends, and then we put it in everything. Then we learned to thrive on the glow.
Cast your minds back, listeners. The human race had just discovered atomic energy, and my word, did we take to it. Atomic cars! Atomic radios! Atomic toasters! Society rebuilt itself around the stuff almost overnight. Nuclear fission became one of the first subjects taught to schoolchildren, and its study led to magnificent scientific achievements.
And here's the part that still gives me a chill. Over the generations, we did more than survive all that radiation. We evolved to thrive in it. No other species in the galaxy can say the same, and believe me, we've asked around.
Then the planet turned on us. That story is next: The Launch.