Another bunch of anti-war, long-haired, baggy-pants hippies would eventually assume a similar role.
We were all scared spit-less by fear-mongering about the ravages of nuclear bombs.
I remember the fear leading up to the Kanchatka nuclear tests when we feared that blasts would trigger volcanoes and earthquakes all the way down to west coasts of North America and South America.
Maybe conservative, bible-thumping, evangelists take up the torch because they feared that pollution and nuclear war would interfere with their sport-fishing and duck-hunting, etc. Maybe conservatives would form a militant wing of Ducks Unlimited.