by P. D. Smith
Burdick, Eugene, and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe 423
Burroughs, William S. 286
Bush, President George W. 349, 435
Bush, Vannevar 272, 275, 276, 282
Byrnes, James F. 323–4, 328, 344
C-bomb see cobalt bomb
Cabaret 152
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The 152
cadmium 7
Campbell, John W.Jr 291, 299–300, 303, 341, 380
‘Atomic Power’ 292
Camus, Albert 381–2
carbon monoxide 101
carpet bombing 199, 317–20
Carroll, Lewis
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 214
Through the Looking-Glass 214
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring 376
Cartmill, Cleve, ‘Deadline’ 294–6
Catholic Church, views on weapons 98
CERN 133, 400
CFCs 172–3
Chadwick, James 181, 215, 257, 322
checking bomb craters 271
discovery of neutron 144, 146, 186–9, 231
internment during World War I 135
on subcommittee to assess feasibility of atomic bomb 270
Trinity test 309
Chalmers, Thomas A. 235
Charlie test 394
Chatwin, Bruce, In Patagonia 395
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale 50
Chelyabinsk 410
chemical weapons
in drama 83, 100, 104, 139
in fiction 88–92, 105–6, 111, 224–6, 247–8, 296
history of use 101–2
Holland Report 138
inter-war period 104–5, 224–6, 247–9, 386
in poetry 95, 98, 243
World War I xix, 84–97, 89, 101–5, 115–20, 126, 353, 439
Cheney, Dick 349
Chesney, G.T., ‘The Battle of Dorking’ 105
Chicago 274
Chicago Pile Number One seeCP-1
chlorine xix, 88, 93, 94–7, 103, 117, 126
chlorofluorocarbons 172–3
chloropicrin 117
Christie, Agatha, Destination Unknown 388
Christmas Day truce 92
Churchill, Winston 124, 228, 271, 304, 309, 319, 320, 372, 391, 430
civil defence 342–3, 345–8, 349–51, 373, 378, 424
civilian casualties 343, 352–3, 318–20, 331–2, 335, 350–53, 373
Clancy, Tom, The Hunt for the Red October 175–6
Clark, W.H. 413
Clarke, Arthur C. 417
Clausius, Rudolph 74
Clockwork Orange, A 416
Close Up 211
CND 405
cobalt bomb (C-bomb) xvii–xviii, xxi, 22, 24–5, 26, 27, 112, 129, 352, 354, 364, 374–80, 382, 401–2, 411, 413, 416–18, 422, 428, 432–8
in fiction and film 27, 338, 384–95, 405–7, 411, 418, 422
cobalt-60xviii, 24–5, 63, 301, 379,384, 389–90
Cochrane, Thomas, Earl of Dundonald 101, 102
Cockcroft, John 187–8, 270, 379
cold war xvii, 356, 361, 406, 426, 433, 438
arms race 324, 348, 355, 362, 378, 391–2, 401, 407, 414
culture 345–9, 382–95, 426
Colgate, Stirling 287
Collier’s 340
Cologne 317–18
Committee of 100 439
Compton, Arthur Holly 9, 10, 272, 273, 276, 282, 295, 325, 327–8
computers 161, 358, 415, 417, 434–5
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 96
Conant, James B. 10, 266, 272, 282, 300, 357
opposition to H-bomb 14
Trinity test 314
in World War I 118
concentration camps 91–2, 208–9, 425–6
Connington, J.J., Nordenholt’s Million 145, 193, 233
Conrad, Joseph, The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story 78
conscientious objectors 142, 377, 439
Cooke, Alistair 261
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (UK) 212
Cousins, Norman 164
Cox, Richard T. 191
CP-1 3–11, 5, 33, 34, 274, 280–81, 307
cooling 173–4
fourth anniversary 275
tenth anniversary 12–13
twentieth anniversary 400, 419–20
Crookes, Sir William 40, 57, 66, 67–8, 71, 74, 75, 100, 123, 219
Crookes tube 40–41, 44
crossbow 98
Crosthwaite, C.H.T., ‘Röntgen’s Curse’ 48–9, 49–50
Cuban Missile Crisis 151, 396–402, 410, 420, 422, 429, 433, 438
Curie, Marie 37, 38, 39, 40, 48, 58–62, 66, 68, 131, 188
Curie, Pierre 38, 39, 40, 61, 66–7, 68–71, 230, 282
Dachau 208
Dadaists 131
Daghlian, Harry 35
Dally, Clarence 47–8
Dalton, John 37, 63, 64
Danysz, Jean 71–2, 129
Darwin, Charles 212
Davis, Chan 343–4
Davis, Robert H., and Perley Poore Sheehan, ‘Blood and Iron’
140–41
Day After Tomorrow, The 201, 390
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The 129, 411
Day the Earth Stood Still, The 353
death dust 296–301
death rays 123–8, 249, 265, 267
DEFCON 1 397–8
del Rey, Lester, ‘Nerves’ 292
Delbrück, Max 182, 183
Democritus 37
dengue fever 242
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (UK) 124
Derby, Lord 119
deterrence 257, 342–3, 378, 414
deuterium 189, 281, 356
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquia 155–7
Dirac, Paul 180, 182, 185
dirty bomb 271, 300, 384, 387, 413
see also doomsday bomb and radiological warfare
Döblin, Alfred
Berlin Alexanderplatz 152
Mountains, Oceans and Giants
139–40
Dr Cyclops 380, 422
Dr No 401, 412, 422
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb xx, xxi, 27–8, 121, 159, 201, 228, 363, 393, 402, 403, 405–7, 411–12, 414, 416, 418, 421–30, 434, 435
Donnan, Frederick G. 210, 213
Donne, John 315–16
doomsday bomb xvii–xviii, xxi, 20–22, 24–5, 26, 27, 68, 257, 352, 364, 370, 374–80, 382, 401–2, 413, 416–18, 422, 432–3, 438
in fiction 250, 265, 295, 381, 384–95, 402, 405–7, 416
doomsday clock 26, 27, 371, 400, 420
doomsday machine 402, 405–6, 416–18, 424, 430, 432, 433–6
definition 113
Dornberger, Walter 189
Dreadnought, HMS 113
Dresden 318–19
Du Pont 5, 306
dynamite 98–9
Dyson, Freeman 318, 379–80
Ebert, Friedrich 139
Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose 58
ecological movement 201, 376, 394
Eddington, Arthur 142
Edgewood Arsenal 118, 119
Edison, Thomas 44–5, 47–8, 53, 122, 245
Ehrenfest, Paul 182, 184, 185, 213
Einstein, Albert 6, 19, 20, 53, 67, 78, 131, 136, 163, 177, 179, 207, 213, 323, 421
attacks on and abuse of 177, 208
attitude to ending of World War I 136–7
in Berlin 153, 155–9, 161–2
and Bohr 181
childhood 167, 169
and Der Bund (The League) 194–5
and doomsday bomb 374, 389
fame 141–3, 157
family business 53
friendship with Szilard xx, 19, 20, 157–9, 161, 170–72, 192–4, 261–3, 323
general theory of relativity 132–5, 141–2, 160
and Haber 131, 135–6, 136
and nuclear fission 254, 261
opposition to H-bomb development 15, 34
0–41
position after World War I 138–9
renouncing German citizenship
209
Rutherford’s views on 64
special theory of relativity 6, 78, 132–4, 253
and splitting the atom 144–5
unified field theory 181, 185
warning letter to Roosevelt 261–3, 266–7
and H.G.Wells 193–4
work on refrigerators 170–73
Einstein, Elsa 135
Einstein Committee 19
Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic pump 171–2, 173–4, 175–6, 285
Eisenhower, President Dwight 355, 356, 359, 360, 362, 363, 363,
379, 411, 425
Electrical Experimenter, The 125–6, 167
electricity 53–5, 125, 169, 171
electromagnetic radiation 63
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer 358
electrons 62–3, 77, 144, 235
Eliot, T.S. 212
Elugelab 13, 360
Emergency Plans Book, The (EPB) 350–51
Empire State Building 179
Engels, Friedrich 92–3
ENIAC 358
Enrico Fermi Award 419
Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies 419
entropy 74
EPB 350–51
Eppinger, Alice 211
escalation 415
failsafe procedure 414, 423
fallout xvii, 14, 20, 23–4, 270–71, 341, 350, 356, 364, 367–8, 386–90, 395, 373–4, 382, 407, 413, 441
fallout shelters 409–10, 415 see also underground bunkers
Farrell, General Thomas F. 313, 332
fast neutron reactors 175
‘Fat Man’ bomb see Nagasaki bomb
Faulkner, William 16
Feld, Bernard 272
FEMA (USA) 350
Fermi, Enrico 5, 163, 165, 235, 236, 268, 273, 275, 289, 354, 356
and breeder reactors 174
and CP-15, 6, 7–11, 12, 33, 280
death 419
on Interim Committee 325
and Manhattan Project 306–7
and nuclear fission 251, 256, 258
opposition to H-bomb 14
and radioactive weapons 300–301
relationship with Szilard 7–8, 163, 174, 258, 268, 280
Trinity test 309–10, 311
in United States 254
Fermi, Giulio 306
Fermi, Laura 254, 301–2, 306, 307
Fermi, Nella 306
fertilizers, artificial 100
Feynman, Richard 309, 340, 360
firebombing 117, 199, 225, 269, 317–20, 352
Fisher, Admiral Lord 120
fission seenuclear fission and uranium
flame-throwers 106
Fleming, Ian 401
Flügge, Siegfried 257, 260
fluorescence 58–9
fluoroscope 45
Flury, Ferdinand 91
Forbidden Planet, The 380
Ford, Ford Madox 78
Forster, E.M. 225
Franck Committee 325
Franck, James 86, 93, 153–4, 155,
157, 325
Franck, Philipp 157
Frank, Pat, Alas, Babylon388, 396
Frankenstein 188
Frau im Mond 211
Freon 172–3
Friedrich-Wilhelm University 154
Frisch, Otto 35–6, 209, 252–3, 269–72, 304, 361
Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon) 127, 129, 366–7, 370, 375, 378
fusion see nuclear fusion
Gabor, Dennis 159, 163–4
‘gadget, the’ 305, 309
Gagarin, Major Yuri 408
Galilei Circle 150
Gallion, Jane, Biker 348
game theory 361
gamma radiation 63, 186–7
Gamow, George 180, 182, 214,
253, 356
Geiger, Hans 93, 155
general theory of relativity 132–5,
141–2, 160
George, Peter 28, 421, 424, 426, 428, 429–30, 432, 434
The Big H 403
Commander One 429
Hong Kong Kill 403
Nuclear Survivors 429
Red Alert (Two Hours to Doom) 402, 403, 404, 405–6, 411–13, 416, 418, 421, 429, 430
Germany
in the 1920s 151–4
development of atomic bomb
265–6, 282–3
revolution after World War I 137, 138–9
under the Nazis 207–10
Gernsback, Hugo 124–6, 162, 167, 169, 193, 305
Gerstell, Richard, How to Survive
an Atomic Bomb 367
global warming 389–90, 441
Goddard, Robert 205
Godfrey, Hollis, The Man Who
Ended War 112, 113, 114
Godzilla (Gojira) 73, 77, 368,
370–71, 377
Goebbels, Joseph 177
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust xxi, 73, 100–101, 139, 182–6, 190, 205, 208, 213, 219, 221, 244, 363, 380, 431–2
Golding, William 385
Goldsmith, Hyman 25
graphite 6, 7, 8, 266, 268, 281
Greek fire 103, 104
Green, Georgia 314
Greenwalt, Crawford H. 5
Grossmann, Marcel 160
Grosz, George 152
Ground Zero, Trinity test 308
Groves, General Leslie R. 278–9, 285–6, 301, 305, 310, 315, 321, 322, 325, 327–8, 354
Grünewald, Matthias, Isenheim Altarpiece 315
Guest, Val 411
gunpowder 98
Gute Kamerad, Der 167
H-bomb see hydrogen bomb
Haber, Clara 83–7, 131, 441
Haber, Fritz xix, 84, 99–101, 108, 111, 117, 136, 140, 144–5, 177, 209, 210, 438
and aerial bombardment 119
at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquia 155
development of poison gas 83–97, 103–5
and Einstein 135–6
Nobel Prize 138
as refugee 210, 212–13, 214
synthesis of ammonia 100
as war criminal 137–8, 139
Haber, Hermann 83, 87
Haber, Ludwig 105
Hahn, Otto 209, 251, 266
and cobalt bomb 378
at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute 210
in Kapp Putsch 153–4
and nuclear fission 252–4, 255, 256, 287
work on poison gas 92–3
Hal 417
Haldane, J.B.S. 103
Callinicus 103
Hall, Austin, ‘The Man Who Saved the Earth’ 169
Hamburg 318
Hanford 305–6
Harris, Air Marshal Arthur 317
Harrison, Tony, Square Rounds 83, 100, 104
Harteck, Paul 259–60
Hartley, Sir Harold 214
Hearst, William Randolph 44
heat rays 123, 126 see also death rays
Heinlein, Robert A.
‘Blowups Happen’ 292
‘Solution Unsatisfactory’ 296–300, 324
Heisenberg, Werner 8, 155, 176, 182, 266, 282–3, 291
Hersey, John 316
Hertz, Gustav 93, 155
Hesse, Hermann, The Glass Bead Game 192
Hiroshima bomb 6, 19, 34, 134, 270, 298, 316, 328–32, 334, 368, 382, 435
Hirst, Sir Hugo 218–19, 234
Hitler, Adolf 118, 137, 151, 152, 153, 177, 189, 207, 209, 210, 283, 288, 399, 417, 430
Holland Report 138
Homer, Hymn to Apollo 71
Honda, Ishirō 371
Hoover, Commander Gilbert C.
267
Horthy de Nagybánya, Miklós 149
hotline, White House–Kremlin 429
Hudson Institute 415
Huelsenbeck, Richard 131
Hughes, G.W.G. 96
Hugo Awards 124, 416
Hungarian Association of Socialist Students 150
/> ‘Hungarian Quartet’ xx, 159, 176, 214, 260, 354, 355, 364
Hungary following World War I 149–50, 355
Hussein, Saddam 118
Huxley, Aldous 285
Brave New World 227
hydrogen bomb xx–xxi, 281, 340–41, 354, 377, 414
authorization 340
Berkeley meeting 281–2
Bravo (Bikini Atoll) test 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374, 384
decision to develop 13–15, 354
development 356, 358–9, 371–2
doomsday see doomsday bomb
fuel 189, 356–7
lobbying for 354, 356–7
Mike test 13, 359–60
opposition to development 13–14, 15–24
on ships 22–3, 364
Shrimp 365–6
Soviet Union 341, 368, 371–2
United Kingdom 342–3, 371–3, 437
hydrogen cyanide 91–2
I Aim at the Stars 425
ICBMs 190, 283, 284, 285, 290–91, 362, 407, 408, 422, 433, 435
Ikeda, Seiko 330
incendiary bombs 117, 199, 269, 317–20, 352
India 438
indium 235
Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla 430
Institute for Strategic Studies, London 402, 403, 407
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen 180, 181–2
intercontinental ballistic missiles 190, 283, 284, 285, 290–91, 362, 407, 408, 422
Interim Committee 323–5
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 78
Invasion USA 340
Invisible Man, The 185, 236
Iran 438
Iraq 118, 228, 437–8, 441
Irwin, Will 119–20, 249
Isherwood, Christopher, Berlin Stories 152
Ishii, Shiro xix, 244–7, 285, 305, 353, 438
isotopes 34
Israel 438
Japan
biological weapons 244–7
as target of atomic bomb 322–36
JIGSAW 349
Johnston, John Lawson 56
Johnstone, William W., Ashes series 348
Joint Inter-Services Group for the Study of All-Out Warfare (UK) 349
Joliot-Curie, Frédéric 181, 187, 230, 257–8, 259
Joliot-Curie, Irène 187, 230
Jornada del Muerto 249, 309
Jünger, Ernst 97
Just, Gerhardt 85–6
Kaempffert, Waldemar 192
Kahn, Herman 28, 412, 414–18, 424, 426, 428
On Thermonuclear War 415–16, 417, 424
Kaiser, Georg, Gas I/ Gas II 139
Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 83, 93, 131, 158, 163, 205, 207, 209, 210
Kandinsky, Wassily 77
Kapp Putsch 153–4
Kellermann, Bernhard, Der Tunnel 166
Kennedy, President John F. 396–402, 405, 408, 421, 428, 433
Kennedy, Joseph W. 33
Kennedy, Robert 400, 401
Kenney, General George C. 368
Khrushchev, Nikita 391, 397, 400–401, 407, 408, 409, 413, 429, 432–3
Kipling, Rudyard, ‘As Easy as ABC’ 228