Negative Space: nuclear power

The essence of the new Liberalism was to make each human being, as far as possible, a universal tyrant within his own world, commanding all the pleasures possible in that world, and emancipated from everything except those limits upon his power that Science had not yet conquered. Thus would the return to a Garden of Eden—but one in which there would be no forbidden fruit—be accomplished. — Harry V. Jaffa (A New Birth of Freedom^•)