For some time, but maybe always, the problem of the - peaceful or military - concerned about public opinion around the world, almost. A concern that some countries, from Iran to North Korea, they face a destructive use, and who, as in Italy, although he is afraid will be used to meet the growing demand for energy. The problem, therefore, has ancient roots and in the mid-thirties he was busy in a story Mickey thought (his subject) and drawn by Floyd Gottfredson (inked by Ted Twaites ) with a screenplay by Ted Osborne, perhaps the greatest designer of Disney's mouse. It is of "Mickey and the mystery Cloud Man," appeared in the daily strips between 30 November 1936 and 3 April the following year and soon after published in the weekly Topolino in Italy. The first translation was quite true, but a little 'home made, fortunately corrected in the many reprints of the following years. 
The story was inspired by reading the newspaper in those years often gave information on progress in research on the atom, and especially the vision of a film by director William Cameron, " Things to Come" ( The future life in the Two Thousand), with Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Sir Cedric Hardwick and Raymond Massey, adapted from a story by HG Wells , the War of the Worlds and other sci-fi adventures. Gottfredson's story is titled, in English, " Island in the sky", and the island in the sky called the title is the one where he lives, Dr. Einmug , a bizarre inventor (now professor in Italy. Enigma ), who discovered how to use the energy of atoms, in practice he discovered a few years before atomic energy Einstein and Fermi scientist Einmug which is the funny parody version. But the professor is not entirely 
pleased with his invention because, he says, "it does not cause that war, destruction and ruin." It further states that "when I use that would make the men of my invention, I feel like crying," though "with my atomic energy in the world could all be rich and happy, but with a man it would dominate the world ". In these words we seem to hear not only the concerns of those years on the use of nuclear energy, but also the echo of the current debate among American scientists and anti-Nazis in the late thirties. Then, when war broke out and the real danger loomed in the Nazi atomic bomb, these doubts fell. Returning to the history of Disney, we can say that it has a clear prophetic tone, with the inevitable spy of a foreign country (needless to say the evil Gambadilegno , which in some history of the early forties end up in Nazi uniform) that tries to steal the formula to the mild Einmug. Obviously, the involvement of Mickey sventerà this sinister plot, but Einmug believes that "the world is not yet ripe for an invention of the genus, and departs with his island flying to a distant planet, so that the atomic bomb ends up in wrong hands. (Article by Charles Scaringi ).
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