Pop Culture References to Nuclear Chemistry By Ronell Rolfe II and Zi Lin

Godzilla, also known as Gojira in Japan, is a 100-meter tall monster that was created because of nuclear testing. Godzilla’s head was designed to look like a mushroom cloud that created during a nuclear bob and his scales where made to look like the skin of people that were affected by radiation.  Originally, Godzilla was a dinosaur that somehow survived the extinction age and lived on an island for most of his life. Then, the U.S military used that area as a testing site for their nuclear bombs. All of the radiation from the bombs ended up mutating Godzilla into a giant Kaiju and gave him the ability to control his radiation into a beam that he can fire from his mouth. Now Godzilla roams the Earth as a force of nature that shows how dangerous mankind’s weapons can be towards nature.

Peter Parker used to be your average run of the mill kid until one field trip changed his life. Peter was on a field trip to Industries, minding his own business when he suddenly got bit by a radioactive spider. The spider bite gave Peter the proportional strength, speed, and agility of a spider and gave him radioactive blood. At first, he used his powers to become a wrestler until he didn’t get paid after a match. When the announcer got robbed the same day he did nothing to help and that same guy ended up killing his uncle. Peter then went on to become Spider-Man and learned that with great power comes great Responsibility.

Daredevil, a.k.a. Matt Murdock is the worlds first blind superhero. When Matt was a young boy he saved a mans life by pushing them out of the way of a speeding truck. The truck ended up crashing and just so happened to be containing dangerous radioactive substances. The radioactive waste spilled and got into Matt’s eyes and blinded him but, it heightened all of his other senses.  Matt got trained by a blind guy named Sticks to harness his ability and to use his heightened senses to fight crime in Hell’s Kitchen.  8

Mission Impossible Fallout is the 6th movie of the Mission Impossible franchise. It grossed 791.1 million dollars in the box office. This movie is filled with intense action scenes and radioactive bombs. In fact – the main plot is to retrieve 3 military grade plutonium cores that terrorists are trying to get to bomb a few places. These bombs can each create 5 megatons of energy each. That is much more that Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Even though this movie is good, it doesn’t really follow science or what radiation does to you. I guess this is necessary for the plot and maybe just because Hollywood.

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