by P. D. Smith
Kiss Me Deadly 345
Kissinger, Henry 28, 412, 414, 424
Kistiakowsky, George B. 313
Koestler, Arthur 192
Kokura 332
Kollwitz, Käthe 138
Kornfeld, Albert (Albert Korodi) 159, 172, 306
Kowarski, Lew 258–9
Kramer, Russell 29, 32
Krassa, Zinaide 84–5, 86
Kraus, Lili 194
Kubrick, Stanley 27–8, 393, 402–3, 409, 411–12, 413, 416–18, 421, 422, 424–5, 428–9, 430–31
Kurchatov, Igor 368
Lanchester, Frederick W. 317–18
Lang, Daniel 367
Langevin, Paul 37–8, 63, 188–9
Langsdorf, Martyl 26
Lapp, Ralph E. 379
Lartigue, Jacques Henri 116
Lasswitz, Kurd, Auf zwei Planeten 205
Latter, Albert, Our Nuclear Future 391
Laurence, William L. 254, 286, 294,368–9, 420
and atomic bomb 289–90
and CP-112
and doomsday bomb 24, 374–5, 405
and Manhattan Project 266
and Nagasaki bomb 266, 333
Trinity test 310, 311, 313
Lawrence, Ernest O. 164, 271–2, 287, 357, 360
Lax, Peter 306
Lay, D.H.F. 376
Le Bon, Gustave 68
Lehrer, Tom 285
LeMay, General Curtis E. 205, 319–20, 350, 353, 397, 401, 414, 432
Lenard, Philipp 177
Leonardo da Vinci 102
Leucippus 37
Leviathan 179
Lewis, W.Lee 119, 120
Lewisite 119, 119–20, 225
Libby, Willard F. 409–10
Liebknecht, Karl 153
Lilienthal, David E. 14, 15–16, 24, 357
Lindemann, Frederick 124, 235, 269
‘liquid air’ 56–7, 66
‘Little Boy’ bomb seeHiroshima bomb
Livermore Laboratory 357, 360
Lolita 402, 403, 418, 422, 426
London 17, 43, 54, 55, 70, 116, 119, 122, 141, 151–2, 190, 194, 198, 203, 209–19, 222, 225–6, 229, 230–31, 234–5, 250, 256, 259, 269, 291, 333, 342–3, 372–3, 380, 385, 392, 402, 408, 428, 437, 439, 441
London, Jack 277, 316, 328, 353
‘The Unparalleled Invasion’ 239–41, 242, 387
Loos, Battle of 117, 439
Los Alamos 246, 286–7, 305–6, 356, 359
see also Manhattan Project
Lucas, Jim 301
Lucky Dragon 127, 129, 366–7, 370, 375
Lumière, Louis 45
Lusitania 122
Lütge, Hermann 87
Luxembourg, Rosa 153
Lyon, Sue 403
MacArthur, General Douglas 301, 379, 432
McCarthy, Senator Joseph 24, 32, 357
MacDonald, Anson see Heinlein, Robert A.
McMillan, Edwin 34, 314
McNamara, Robert 397, 400
MAD 107, 406
Mad Max films 348
‘mad scientist’ xviii, xx–xxi, 43, 46, 49, 68, 88, 121, 123, 140, 183, 185, 188, 229, 236, 238, 250, 295, 296, 304, 370, 379–80, 393, 401, 422–7
see also ‘saviour scientist’
Madách, Imre, The Tragedy of Man 190–91, 250–51
Maeterlinck, Maurice, La Vie des Abeilles 211
malaria 242
Malraux, André 97
The Walnut Trees of Altenburg
88–92, 102–3
Mandl, Otto 194, 195–6, 292
Manhattan Project xx, 14, 16, 29, 159, 230, 257, 266
authorization 272
bomb designs 307–8
command of 278
funding 267–8
Hiroshima bomb 6, 19, 34, 134, 270, 298, 316, 328–32, 334, 368, 382, 435
Met Lab 33, 274, 305
Nagasaki bomb 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 298, 308, 332–6, 335, 358, 384
number of people involved 118, 306
Oppenheimer appointed head 285–6
role of Mark Oliphant 273
sites 286–7, 305
targeting 321–2, 324–5, 327
Trinity test 307, 308–16, 309, 312
views of scientists regarding atomic bomb 274, 321–2, 327
women scientists 174
MANIAC 358
Mann, Thomas
The Magic Mountain 29, 46–7, 302
‘Mario and the Magician’ 152
March, Peyton C. 115
Mark, Herman 165
Marshall, John Jr 174, 272
Marx, Groucho 410
Mason, James 403
Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator and Computer 358
Matrix, The 391
Maugham, W.Somerset, The Magician 73
May, Karl 166
Mayer, Douglas 288
Meitner, Lise 93, 131, 154, 155,
179, 182, 205–6, 209, 235,
252–4
Méliès, Georges 45
Mengele, Joseph 245
Merritt, Ernest 59–60, 61, 62
Met Lab 33, 274, 305
Metropolis 179, 188, 423
Metropolis, Nicholas 358
Midgley, Thomas 172–3
Mike test 13, 359–60
Miles, The Gas War of 1940 225–6
Military Policy Committee (USA)
322
Miller, Walter M., A Canticle for
Leibowitz 338, 388
Minuteman missiles 407, 433
Mitchell, William (Billy) 198–9
Mittelbau-Dora 209
Moffett, Cleveland 69–74
Moore, Ward, ‘Lot’ 348
Morrison, Philip 311
Moseley, Henry 120
Moszkowski, Alexander 143, 144
Muller, Hermann 19
Mumford, Lewis 426
‘Gentlemen: You are mad!’ 382, 384, 392
mustard gas 88, 115, 117, 118, 119, 379
mutually assured destruction 107
N-bomb 360
Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 402
Nagasaki bomb 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 298, 308, 332–6, 335, 358, 384
see also plutonium bomb
Nathan, Charlotte 87
Nathanson, Isaac R., ‘The World Aflame’ 231–4, 232
National Defense Researc Committee (NDRC) (USA)
272
Neddermeyer, Seth 308
neptunium 34
Nernst, Walther 131, 144–5, 155
neutrons 6, 144, 146, 186–9, 215,
274
bombardment of uranium with 251–4
New York 19, 24, 26, 30, 45, 56, 77, 152–3, 179–80, 190–91, 198, 204, 223, 228, 240, 242, 247–8, 254, 258–62, 272–4, 299, 306, 322, 344, 364, 374, 384, 409, 411, 413, 416, 423, 429
New York Herald Tribune 341
Newcomb, Simon, His Wisdom the Defender 112, 244
Newman, Bernard, Armoured
Doves 226
Newman, James R. 412, 415–16
Newton, Sir Isaac 141–2
Nicholas II, Tsar 105
Nichols, Robert, and Maurice Browne, Wings Over Europe 228–9, 256, 302
Nicolson, Harold, Public Faces
226–7, 301–2
nitrogen synthesis 100, 101
Nobel, Alfred 69, 98–9, 138, 315
Nobel Prizes 65, 68–9, 93, 138, 164, 181, 230, 254, 255, 257,
301
Noddack, Ida 251
Nolde, Emil 191–2
North Korea 413, 438
Norton, Roy, The Vanishing Fleets 112–13
Novick, Aaron 26
Noyes, Pierrepoint B., The Pallid Giant (Gentlemen: You Are Mad) 264–5, 384
nuclear chain reaction 6–8, 34, 68, 145–6, 206, 216–23, 230–31, 234–6, 255, 257–63, 269–70, 274, 311, 314, 329–30
in fiction 127, 145, 202–4, 218–22, 231–4, 250–51, 292–6, 387, 395
H-bomb 282, 358
nuclear fission 6, 251–63, 281, 287
; nuclear fusion 6, 281–2, 358
nuclear reactors 173–4, 199, 268, 280, 306
breeder reactor 174–5, 285
CP-1 3–11, 5, 12–13, 33, 34, 173–4, 274, 275, 280–81, 307, 419–20
development in Germany 283
fast neutron reactors 175
in fiction 292–4
nuclear proliferation 200, 438
nuclear tests 13, 35, 127, 129, 359–60, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374–5, 377, 378, 380, 386, 394, 407–9, 413, 437, 441
Oak Ridge 305
Office of Emergency Planning (USA) 350
Office of Scientific Research and Development (USA) 272
Offut Air Force Base 349–50
Oliphant, Mark 269–72, 273
On the Beach 27, 388–90, 391–3, 441
Operation Backfire 284
Operation Crossroads 362, 380
Operation Gomorrah 318
Operation Tumbler 394
Oppenheimer, J.Robert 186, 301, 344, 398, 438
and H-bomb 14, 15, 281–2, 357, 358
Manhattan Project 285–6, 287, 307
post-war security problems 357, 360
and Szilard 324–5
and Szilard’s petition 326, 327
Trinity test 127, 310, 315–16
visit to Germany 159–60
OSRD 272
Ostwald, Wilhelm 61
Owen, Dean, End of the World 348
Owen, Wilfred 95
Pakistan 438
Paracelsus 72–3
Paris Gun 123
particle accelerators 215–16
Paths of Glory 402
Pauli, Wolfgang 155, 176, 184, 185, 251
Pauling, Linus 19
Pearl Harbor 272, 343, 345, 349, 362, 386
Peierls, Genia 306
Peierls, Rudolf 269–72, 306, 320
Penney, Sir William 371–2
Pentagon War Room 397–8, 414
Perimetr system 433–6
Perrin, Jean 38
Peterson, Val 378
Petit Inventeur, Le 168
phosgene 88, 117–18
photons 132, 181, 187
PIC 300
Pioneer Regiment 93, 95
pitchblende 59–60, 61–2
Planck, Max 131, 144–5, 154, 155
Planet of the Apes films 27, 384–5
Plath, Sylvia, ‘Doomsday’ 27
plutonium
in breeder reactors 174, 175
creation 305
discovery 32–6
isotopes 34
Simons’ theft of 29–32
toxicity 31, 35
plutonium bomb 40, 268, 272, 274, 281, 343
critical mass 307, 332
design 308, 358
fallout from testing 35
Nagasaki 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 332–6, 335
Trinity test 307, 308–316, 309, 312
poison gas xix, 249, 379
airborne attack 119
in drama 83, 100, 103–4, 139
in fiction 88–92, 105–6, 111, 224–6, 247–8, 296
in poetry 95, 98, 243
public reaction to 115
World War I xix, 84–97, 89, 101–5, 106, 115–20, 126, 353, 439
Polanyi, Michael 154, 191, 207–8, 214
polonium 60–61, 186
Pope, Sir William 214
Porton Down 118
Potsdam Conference 243, 309, 316, 328
Priestley, J.B. 392
Doomsday Men 249–51, 256
Project Orion 379
protons 143–4, 186, 187
Prout, William 186
Pugwash Conference 406
quantum theory 132, 165, 176–7, 181, 185
Quarles, Donald A. 375
Rabi, Isidor 14, 163, 258, 310–11
Rabinowitch, Eugene 25, 158, 325, 413, 420
radar 124, 281
radiation sickness 35, 127, 129, 331–2, 366–7, 373, 393
radioactive decay 65–6
radioactive fallout see fallout
radioactivity 20, 315, 365
artificial creation 230
discovery and early experiments 38, 58–79
in fiction 75–6, 112–15, 126, 197–200, 203, 219, 386–90, 395
in film 345, 368–71, 380, 405, 422, 434
monitoring during World War II 271, 300
in poetry 52, 365
radiological warfare 271, 296–301
‘Radithor’ 72
radium 24, 38, 40, 57, 65–8, 133, 135
effects of and claims for 56, 69–74, 113
in fiction 75, 112, 126–7, 203–4, 219, 222
in film 380
isolation from pitchblende 59–62
in poetry 52
properties 61–2
radon 64, 66
RAND Corporation 413–14, 415, 416, 418, 426
Rathenau, Walther 177
Rayons Roentgen, Les 45
Reagan, President Ronald 412
Redgrave, Corin 437
refrigerators, Einstein and Szilard’s work on 170–73
respirators 102
Ridenour, Louis N. 291
Robida, Albert 107
La Guerre au vingtième siècle 106
robust nuclear earth penetrator 435
Romanisches Café 157, 164, 192
Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad 40–44, 48, 180
Röntgen (X) rays 41–51, 59
in fiction and film 45, 46–51, 123
Roosevelt, Eleanor 15
Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 261–3, 266–7, 272, 323
Rosenberg, Ethel 30
Rosenberg, Julius 30
Rosenbluth, Marshall 365–6
Rosenfeld, Léon 255Roshwald, Mordecai, Level 7388, 392–3, 423
Rotblat, Joseph 257, 260, 301, 321–2
Rumsfeld, Donald 415
Ruska, Ernst 164
Russell, Bertrand 377, 392, 439
Russell Square, London 8, 210, 212–14, 216–18, 222, 230, 274, 333
Rutherford, Ernest 165, 233, 28 2
and atomic structure 181, 186
and the Curies 37–8
and death rays 12 4
and Haber 21 4
scepticism about atomic power 188, 202, 215–16, 217–18
and sonar 123splitting the atom 143–4
and Szilard 234–5
work on radioactivity 63–6, 67–8
Rutherford, Mary 37, 38
S-I project 272, 278 Sachs, Alexander 262, 263, 267, 268
Sacks, Oliver 71
Sackur, Irene 210
Sackur, Otto 85–6, 210
Sagan, Carl 285St Bartholomew’s Hospital 235
Sakharov, Andrei 352, 409–10
Saleeby, Caleb Williams 76–7
Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye 406
Salk, Jonas 430
Sargent, John Singer, Gassed 118
sarin 438
‘saviour scientist’ xviii–xix, xxi, 112–13, 121, 123, 125, 129, 137–9, 142, 169, 185, 202, 210, 229, 234, 240, 244, 277, 279, 296, 305, 315, 370, 380–81, 393, 406, 411, 420–21
see also ‘mad scientist’
Schelling, Thomas 429, 430
Schiller, Friedrich von, Die Jungfrau
von Orleans 137
Schr ödinger, Erwin 155, 176, 179,
von Orleans 137 213
science fiction 78, 105, 112, 165, 277, 291–303, 306, 341, 368
accuracy of predictions 302, 368, 369
magazines xx, 105, 112, 124–6, 167, 291–2, 305, 341
in World War II 291–300, 301–2
see also specific magazines and stories
Seaborg, Glenn 32–4, 35, 222, 257, 314, 420
seaborgium 32
Segrè, Emilio 252, 311, 356, 360
Seitz, Frederick 18–24, 18
Sellers, Peter 421, 422, 425–6, 427
September 11 2001, aftermath 77, 115, 200, 344, 349
Serber, Robert 307, 364
Seven Days t
o Noon 17, 27, 380, 381
Sheehan, Perley Poore, and Robert H.Davis, ‘Blood and Iron’ 140–41
Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 48, 51, 183, 247, 393
Shiel, M.P., The Yellow Danger 110–11, 247
Shils, Edward 25, 26, 151, 158
Shute, Nevil, On the Beach 27, 388–90, 391–2, 441
Silard, Bela 149–50, 159, 165–6, 167, 169, 254, 273
Simak, Clifford D., ‘Lobby’ 293–4
Simons, Sanford Lawrence 29–32, 31, 34, 35
Site R 349
Site Y 285–7, 306
‘SK’ bomb 97
Smith, Company Sergeant Major Albert Edward 439–41, 440
Smith, Alice K. 164, 302, 430
Smith, Bernard 439, 441, 442
Smith, George H., The Coming of the Rats 348
Smyth, Henry DeWolf 238, 279, 300
Snow, C.P. 187
‘A New Means of Destruction’ 287–8
society, fears of post-nuclear breakdown 343, 348–9, 351, 373, 384, 411
Society for the Protection of Science and Learning 212
Society for Space Travel 189
Soddy, Frederick xviii, 38, 78, 120, 134, 204, 264, 316
The Interpretation of Radium
130, 202–3, 384
predictions regarding atomic power 101, 105, 202
work on radioactivity 64, 65–6, 67–8
Somme, Battle of the 97
Sommerfeld, Arnold 137, 176
sonar 123
Southern, Terry, Candy 421
Southwold, Stephen seeMiles
Soviet Union 355
arms race 323–4, 401, 407
atomic bomb 341, 357
cobalt bomb 375
Cuban Missile Crisis 396–402
H-bomb 341, 368, 372
Joe- 4 bomb 371
nuclear tests 407–9, 413, 441
Perimetr system 433–6
and purpose of first US atomic bombs 321, 322, 324, 325
Tsar Bomba super bomb 408–9, 410
space travel 196, 204–5, 292, 318, 354, 379, 390, 408, 422
Spartacus 402
special theory of relativity 78, 132, 134, 253
Speer, Albert 282, 283
Spender, Stephen 152, 191
spinthariscope 71, 219
SPSL 212
Stalin, Joseph 309
Star Wars 123
‘Star Wars’ defense initiative 249, 360
statistical mechanics 159–61, 175
Staudinger, Hermann 94
Stenhouse, John 102
Stevenson, Adlai 379, 405, 411
Stewart, Alfred Walter see Connington, J.J.
Stockton, Frank, The Great War Syndicate 107–10, 109
Strassmann, Fritz 252, 255, 256, 287
Strategic Air Command 350, 353, 415
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) 249, 360
Strath, William 373
Strath Report 373
Stratton, George F., ‘The Poniatowski Ray’ 125
Strauss, Lewis L. 255–6, 367, 371, 373, 377
Strieber, Whitley
Day After Tomorrow, The 390