There were still, in 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. This means, simply, that operators in nuclear power plants need not be eminent physicists or mathematicians. They had some nuclear power, introduced a century or so ago by traders from Marduk, one of the really civilized planets.
This interactive Google map shows the path of the Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21. The northern and southern path limits are blue and the central line is red. You MUST be somewhere within the central path (between the blue lines) to see the total phase of the eclipse. The eclipse is longest on the central line (red).
The Javascript Solar Eclipse Explorer lets you calculate the visibility of solar eclipses from any city for hundreds of years in the past and future: Search for solar eclipses by date interval, type, and magnitude, and plot the results on Google maps: Other useful links to past and future solar eclipses are as follows. 1  Decade Solar Eclipse Tables: | 1951 - 1960 | 1961 - 1970 | 1971 - 1980 | 1981 - 1990 | 1991 - 2000 2  |. Solar Eclipses on Google Maps: | 1901 - 1920 | 1921 - 1940 | 1941 - 1960 | 1961 - 1980 | 1981 - 2000 |.