In this recovered history, the hydrogen bubble at Three Mile Island doesn’t hold. When containment fails, a black plume rises over Pennsylvania, and half a million people are forced to flee. The town of Middletown becomes a radiological exile zone. Nuclear power collapses. Trust fractures. Families vanish into shelters, and an entire generation grows up with caution etched into memory.

Meltdown at Middletown explores the intimate human cost of a single detonation—through the eyes of evacuees, survivors, and a nation that turned away from the atomic age in fear. What do we lose when we run? And what might we have gained?

This is Not This Time. Delta 18. Verified and archived.