What Jack Huttner misses most is the feeling that he and his ragtag band of activists, the SHAD Alliance, “could do anything.” The SHADs — shorthand for Sound-Hudson Against Atomic Development — were among the more visible of the 1970s environmentalists who took on energy modernity head-on. In Shoreham, New York; Seabrook, New Hampshire; Avila Beach, California; and dozens of other sites across the country, the SHAD Alliance and groups like it channeled the passions of young adulthood to deliver a simple message: No nukes.

By the late '70s, resisting nuclear power had become a cultural fever, and at Shoreham, 60 miles east of New York City, the SHADs waged one of the era’s great battles. As New York Times coverage from June 4, 1979, depicts , the Shoreham protest drew an estimated 15,0

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