One of the projects I worked earlier had as a plot device a Atomic Horror: a big, bad, 60's-fashioned, thousand-feet-tall radioactive monster -- think Godzilla. Like any good atomic horror, he was going to tear the city down, unless the players stopped him. But now the question came back to me: how do you stop a Atomic Monster? I researched about the matter, I really did. But the answers weren't very varied or satisfying, as it all boiled down to: A) Killing the Kaiju, using hi-tech or lots of, but still massive, warfare and firepower. B) Send a superpowered beign, like a (pack of) superhero(es) or another atomic horror, as a "humanity's last hope". C) Wait untill it gets tired and goes back to the sea, Monster Island, or wherever it came. The question here is, is there another way? And if we want him alive, can't he be trapped -- there is such a thing that can trap a Horror? The last time I saw this was in Godzilla '98, and that was because Mommy Zilla got stuck in the bridge, and was mercylessly killed anyway. A forced lucky shot I'd say.(remember that Mommy Zilla was strong enough to burrow trough buildings and under the whole NY? How the brige trapped her?) I'd like to hear from you all.

Since he's radioactive, we can assume that his lifeforce and energy come from the fission reaction in his tissue. He could be like a giant reactor with legs. The trick in destroying him could be to upset the equilibrium of the reaction, as we all know, if a fission reactor operates too intensely, there will be a meltdown. So the trick would be to lure him away from any inhabited places, then get him to meltdown by launching a small explosive missile at some gland or whatever that controls the reaction rate.

C.

If you're going to want to trap him, well, I guess you might have to think a bit more about why he's radioactive. I am imagining that he crawls into one of those big, white towers of three mile island, and then the technology that controls the reaction at the plant also subdues him.

But if you're looking for a low tech solution, I say that you focus on some (fictional) tribe of uranium worshiping mystics somewhere in central asia. They've been prophesizing the coming of the Great One and all, who happens to be your monster. They've been worshiping his arrival for centuries and now that he is here, they somehow manage to find out about it, and then through their rituals, they communicate with it and work out a peaceful solution.

C.

the melt down was done in a Godzilla movie