Obninsk, 97

Office of Coal Research (OCR), 48–50, 65–66

oil crisis. See energy crisis

Operation Atomic Vision, 28

Operation Candor (candor speech), 81, 83–84

Operations Coordinating Board (OCB), 84–86, 92, 96

Operation Wheaties, 83

Oppenheimer Panel, 81

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 19, 21–22, 81, 110

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), 51, 56, 59–60, 104

Oyster Creek, 38–40, 65–66, 139–142, 145, 154–155

Paley Commission, 3, 28, 50, 84

peace offensive, 80–81

pork-barrel, 48–50, 200

postmodern (postmodernity), 166, 180, 185, 188–189

Price-Anderson Act, 35–36, 38, 65

progress, 14, 19, 34, 86–87, 92, 118–119, 126–129, 144, 166, 173–183, 188, 196, 202, 205, 210

Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), 86, 91

Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978, 44, 164

Reagan, Ronald, 58–59, 61–62, 168, 178

Rickover, Hyman, 29–31, 37, 97–98

Roosevelt, Franklin, 18, 20, 61

Seaborg, Glenn, 20–21, 29, 192

Shippingport, 30, 36–38, 47–48, 65, 97–98, 111–113, 141–142, 145

Soviet Union, 10, 13, 23, 71–72, 74–75, 77, 79–83, 87–89, 94, 96–98, 132, 191, 196, 205

Sporn, Philip, 120, 141, 154–155

Strauss, Lewis, 30, 36–37, 83–85

Synthetic Fuels Corporation (SFC), 4–6, 14, 55, 57–63, 66–67, 106, 128, 136, 151, 167–168

Szilard, Leo, 18, 20

there is no alternative (TINA), 130–131, 211

Three Mile Island (TMI), 43, 66, 129, 159, 174

Truman, Harry, 3, 19–23, 31, 33, 46, 61, 75, 78, 81, 90

turnkey, 38–41, 65, 139–140, 142, 146, 154–155

Twain, Mark, 108

United States Information Agency (USIA), 86, 93

United Nations (UN), 33, 65, 83, 89

weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 88–89, 116

Weber, Max, 166

welfare state, 69, 99–101, 103

Westinghouse, 31, 37, 40, 111–112, 117, 138–139, 142, 154, 163, 203

windfall profit tax, 57, 59, 106

Yankee Rowe, 38, 145, 148, 150

Yergin, Daniel, 52