![]() government, eventually serving as leader of Justice League Europe. Captain Atom joined the Justice League at the request of the U.S. Eventually, Atom rebelled against Eiling, resigned from the Air Force and found some fulfillment as an actual superhero. Early conflicts involved him coming to terms with his lost time with his children (who were now close to his current age as a result of the time jump), the death of his wife (who had married his nemesis Eiling prior to dying), and the overall ramifications of his newly acquired powers.Ītom/Adam served under Eiling reluctantly, while succeeding in clearing his name. Upon his initial return from the Quantum Field, Nathaniel Adam was the classic "man out of his time". It was during this time he met the superpowered terrorist, Plastique, who would become a recurring part of Nathaniel's life. The events of the Charlton stories were established as simply the cover story for Adam, who also was assigned the alias of Cameron Scott, an Air Force intelligence operative. Seizing the opportunity at hand, the government used the outstanding murder/treason charges against Adam to blackmail him into being a government-controlled superhero (codenamed Captain Atom). Everyone had assumed that Nathaniel Adam had died on the day of the experiment, so his presidential pardon was never issued and the current government refused to acknowledge the previous administration's promised pardon. ![]() Regaining coherence in 1986, Adam found himself a man out of his time and in the hands of Eiling, now a general and the second husband of Adam's now-deceased wife. Adam survived as the metal melted into his body and the excess energy threw him forward in time nearly twenty years (not incidentally, this coating with alien metal gave the revised character a full-body silvered metal look distinctly different from his previous incarnations.) The experiment involved testing the hull of a crashed alien ship's durability by exploding a super nuclear bomb under it. As an alternative to execution, he was invited to participate in a military experiment with little chance of survival, in exchange for a presidential pardon. ![]() Adam had been framed for a crime he didn't commit and sentenced to death under the watch of Col. Captain Atom was Nathaniel Christopher Adam, a United States Air Force officer of the Vietnam War era.
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