Baci Perugina chocolates, mass-produced, romantic, and wrapped in platitudes, the perfect symbol of market-friendly intimacy. Their iconic love notes package emotion into a digestible, commodified form, where desire is standardized and sold. This makes them an ideal site to interrogate the system nuclear energy is rooted in: a capitalist framework that prioritizes profit and control over transparency and human life, where power operates through invisibility.

By replacing the original notes with fragments of suppressed fallout data, declassified state secrets, and institutional cynicism, the chocolates are transformed into carriers of radioactive memory. This gesture turns a nostalgic object of affection into a subversive, anti-colonial vessel, one that leaks historical truths instead of sentimental lines. The Baci become mouth-sized monuments to denial, violence, and systemic failure.

This reimagining reveals how nuclear energy is not a neutral or purely technical force, it is an exacerbation of capitalist market relations, privileging productivity over safety, secrecy over accountability, and profit over life. The Baci operate like post-nuclear relics, they offer not love, but the residual truths that power sought to erase