energy crisis (oil crisis), 3–4, 11, 41–42, 46–47, 50–53, 55–56, 99, 101–104, 106, 130–134, 151, 158–159, 164, 202

Energy Information Administration (EIA), 43, 45, 54, 118, 123–124, 161, 178, 206, 208

Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), 5, 50–51, 66, 161

epistemic community, 126

factional melodrama, 12, 132–133, 191–192, 205

Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA), 91

Federal Energy Administration (FEA), 51, 66, 161

Federal Power Commission (FPC), 160

Ford, Gerald, 4, 51, 66, 131

forecaster's dilemma, 9, 136, 165

Fromm, Erich, 25

Gallup, George, 73, 106, 178

General Electric (GE), 38–40, 65, 127–128, 139–140, 142, 146, 154–155, 178

Gilbert, Margaret, 137

Goffman, Erving, 110

Gramsci, Antonio, 73, 78

Great Plains Coal Gasification Project (Great Plains Synfuels), 58, 62, 67, 166–170

Great Plains Gasification Associates (GPGA), 167–168

Habermas, Jürgen, 90, 100

House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 78

Humboldt Bay, 38, 142, 145–148

Indian Point No. 1, 38, 142–146

Jackson, Charles D., 82–83, 86

Janis, Irvin, 137

Jersey Central, 38–39, 139–140, 142

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), 22, 32, 34, 93, 141, 143, 187

learning curve, 40, 202–204

Lilienthal, David, 21, 31

Lovins, Amory, 184–187, 190–192, 199

Manhattan Project, 6, 17–23, 30, 57, 64

modernity (modernism, modernist), 12, 15, 125, 129, 166, 173–185, 187–190, 193, 196, 199

moral equivalent of war (MEOW), 51, 58, 69, 101, 104–105, 108, 110, 132–133, 205

mutually assured destruction (MAD), 72

National Petroleum Council (NPC), 46–47

National Security Council (NSC), 77, 80–81, 90

national security state, 10, 14, 69–70, 74, 92, 99–100, 102–103, 105, 196–197, 200–201

Noble, Edward, 59–62

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 5, 66