Timely vintage ad: Three Mile Island says you were an idiot for being scared.

(click ad, from 1980, via) Talk about talking down to people who "didn't have a degree in chemistry." If you're old enough to remember shitting your pants in March of 1979, read this copy and receive your deserved scolding from Commonwealth Edison's professor Fission. That headline got your attention though, right? Me, I'm just sitting here waiting for the Indian Point nuclear plant to fry and turn Manhattan into the Bikini Atoll; I'll then be vigorously washing my skin with A-Bomb Detergent. Previously: a glowing roundup of retro nuclear bomb-vertising.