Premise: How to make a superhero<br>Think about accidental or " nuclear " superpowers. Some characters have " nuclear " powers, which means that they've come in contact with some kind of substance that has given them super-human powers. This was especially popular during the 1940s in the " golden age " of comics when nuclear technology was on the rise.
Hypothesis: The use of nuclear superpowers in fiction during the 1940s was based on the effects of nuclear weapons.