O'Toole wrote many articles on energy, including the burgeoning nuclear power industry in America.
After military service in France, he earned a graduate journalism degree from Boston University and then worked at The Cape Cod Standard Times (now The Cape Cod Times) in Hyannis, reporting on the Andrea Doria ocean liner sinking of 1956.
He immediately began covering the Lunar Orbiter program from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Cetron and O'Toole were both contributors to Omni, which collected some of the best science news and writing of the time.
Cetron's sweeping predictions, largely gained from his insider position at the Navy Advanced Research Laboratory, were put into context and prose by O'Toole, who brought his own working knowledge of science to the project.
[2] O'Toole continued to cover space and energy, among other subjects, for The Washington Post.