Shutting down Germany’s nuclear power plants: how pop culture established a critical image of nuclear power

Atomino is a rare exception: known to GDR children from the magazine “Frösi”, the cartoon character invented in 1963 for the communist newspaper “L’unita” was one of the few heroes of pop culture to have a positive image of nuclear power. And even that only as an image: The stories about the friendly little fellow with the “Atomino” entry stamp on his stomach showed rather whimsical …