ABSTRACT
The tempo of events now began to increase dramatically. For all the euphoria that greeted the commissioning of the fission reactors at Calder Hall, it was the promise of almost limitless power from thermonuclear fusion that had really transfixed some in the world after Homi Bhabha’s dramatic announcement in Geneva in 1955. Then, within the UK Atomic Energy Authority, it was the Kurchatov lecture a year later that added further spice to an already exotic mix that had long been simmering.
