First and foremost, I would like to thank the following people for taking the time for an interview, and for sharing their stories with me for this project:

Wolfgang Müller, Rainer Bick (Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker); Hauke Janssen (Der Spiegel Geschichte); Regina Hagen (Atomwaffenfrei Jetzt); Arndt Macheledt, William Ebaugh (Point Alpha Stiftung); Jutta Dahl, Karl-August Dahl (Friedensinitative Hunsrück); Matthias Engelke.

I also owe my gratitude to these people for their time; as well as their assistance, patience, and advice regarding my research:

Rudolf Muhs, Matthew Smith (Royal Holloway, University of London); Heike Hollunder (Dokumentationsstätte Regierungsbunker); Thomas Radtke, Manja Meister, Stephanie Müller, Katharina Konrad, Christoph Dörffel; (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv – DRA); Xanthe Hall, Ulrich Frey, Martin Hinrichs, Marion Küpker (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – ICAN Berlin); Wolfgang Schlupp-Hauck (Pressehütte Mutlangen), Ernst-Ludwig Iskenius (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – IPPNW); Dieter Junker; Matthias Forster (Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Garten); Sandra Latussek (Hamburger Unterwelten e.V.); Robert Hülsbusch, Thomas Karl Schwoerer (Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft – Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen);  Martina Caspers (Bundesarchiv-Bildarchiv); Dilara Scholz; Peter Stepan; Sophie Lange (Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg); K. Hentschel (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr); Stephanie Hausmann (Filmmuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum); Margret Schild (Filmmuseum Düsseldorf); Hede Geiss (Saarländisches Filmarchiv); Michael Merchel (Sächsisches Staatsarchiv); Patricia Plagemann (Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv); Kai-Uwe Kirbach; Mabel Kirbach; Ank van Meel; the staff of the Landesarchiv Berlin; the staff of the German Historical Institute in London.

The following voice actors deserve recoginition for their performances:

Louise Moore (anonymous letter writer); Ned Sanders (Konrad Adenauer); Will Davidson (Franz Josef Strauß); Jack Read (Der Spiegel); Amy Gifford (Anna Siemsen-Vollwieder); Sean Simmons-Barry (“Jeder hat eine chance”, “Zivilschutzfibel”); Jack Bishop (mock president); Josh Berrington (the Göttingen appeal, Heinrich Vögel); Callum Pardoe (East German intelligence briefing); Tasha Crossley (Klara Marie Faßbinder).

Finally, I would like to thank my friends and family for their support – particularly their readiness to provide me with feedback my work, listen to me ramble for minutes on end about German history, and giving me the advice, help, and confidence to finish this project.