Atomic Age

Atomic Age
Habitat	Industrial
Type	Civilization
Generator Stats
Base Cost	Ideas 4.26e8
Base Production	Ideas 177,500/sec
Requires	Telephone Factory
Chronology
Previous	Industrial Revolution
Next	Information Age

The Atomic Age is the ninth generator that produces Ideas and the second generator of the Technological Civilizations. In this age, humanity creates nuclear weapons, transistors, and the first human explorations into space.

Description

"Humans have split the atom, and unleashed a new kind of power on the world. Not the last age - so long you're careful."

Design

The Atomic Age icon is a radio tower, emitting a yellowish-green radio wave.

Upgrades

The Atomic Age has <number of upgrades> upgrades, increasing the generator efficiency with a <total multiplier>x multiplier.

Icon	Name	Description	Cost	Efficiency	Requires
	Modern Science	The monumental discoveries of the 19th and 20th century pave the way for science to progress faster and more dramatically now than in any other period in history.	Ideas 5.68 E8	20%	Atomic Age
	Flight	We used to gaze at the birds in the sky and long to take flight. It's time we built wings of our own, using machines to do what the human body cannot. Early flight machines include gliders.	Ideas 8.52 E8	10%	Factory
	Molecular Biology	Able to explore on an infinitecimal level, we discover the double helix structure of DNA, and other secrets of the modular world.	Ideas 1.42 E9	15%	General Anesthetic
	Liquid Propellant	For decades, rockets were powered by gunpowder, making them heavier and more volatile. Liquid propellant cuts costs and allows the rockets to hold more fuel.	Ideas 1.42 E9	20%	Modern Science Flight
	Atomic Bomb	When we split the atom, we created a weapon beyond anything we'd ever known before. Are we looking towards Armageddon?	Ideas 2.56 E9	10%	Modern Science
	Parachute Recovery	By adding parachutes to rockets, we are able to slow their descent to the ground so that they can be used for multiple launches.	Ideas 2.84 E9	20%	Liquid Propellant
	Plastic	By synthesizing organic compounds, we are able to create stronger materials—and we use them for everything from clothes, to packaging, to building materials.	Ideas 3.69 E9	10%	Modern Science
	V2 Rocket	Some madman has built a rocket to strike at targets 200 miles away. Give him a few more years and he'll be aiming for the moon.	Ideas 4.26 E9	10%	Liquid Propellant
	Nuclear Power	At the atomic level vast amounts of energy are unleashed. By splitting the atom, we've learned to harness those reactions for our own means.	Ideas 4.54 E9	10%	Atomic Bomb
	Television	Like a radio with pictures, or a movie theatre in the comfort of your home! Television allows for the birth of broadcast media.	Ideas 6.53 E9	10%	Atomic Age Silent Film
	Intercontinental Ballistic Missile	These guided missiles were designed to deliver nuclear weapons to their targets—hopefully, no one ever uses them for that purpose.	Ideas 9.94 E9	20%	V2 Rocket Atomic Bomb
	Relativity	Albert Einstein theorized that the speed of light is experienced the same by all humans, but the way that we experience the speed of time itself varies depending on different factors.	Ideas 1.01 E13	50%	50 Atomic Age Modern Science
	Antibiotics	Bacteria-killing subnstances that we discovered by accident, antibiotics have changed the face of medicine and made many once-common infections a threat of the past.	Ideas 1.10 E16	100%	100 Atomic Age Molecular Biology

Achievements

Icon	Name	Description	Requires
	Manhattan Project	During the 1950s, Las Vegas, Nevada, earned the nickname "Atomic City" for becoming the hotspot where tourists would gather to watch above-ground nuclear weapons tests taking place in the surrounding desert.	25 Atomic Age
	Destroyer of Worlds	Upon witnessing the first ever detonation of an atomic bomb, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb, infamously quoted the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, destroyer of worlds."	50 Atomic Age
	Fallout	Following disasterous meltdowns of the nuclear reactors of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, USA and Chernobly in Pripyat, Ukraine, the use of nuclear power was faced with immense public opposition.	100 Atomic Age
	KA-BOOM	The bikini swimsuit was named after Bikini Atoll, site of the first public test of a nuclear bomb, which had occured only four days before the swimsuit mad its public debut.	150 Atomic Age
	Children of The Atom	HG Well's 1914 novel "The World Set Free" proposed a future where scientists discover limitless energy locked within atoms and use it to build weapons - 30 years before scientists would actually discover how to split the atom.	250 Atomic Age