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Authors: Brian Clegg
escape velocity
Esolen, Anthony
Euclid
European Court of Human Rights
Eve
and the tree in the garden of Eden
event horizon
evolution
human beings and
and mutations
and natural selection
evolutionary theory
natural selection and
ExxonMobil
campaign to dismiss global
warming
Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, The,
Fantastic Voyage
(Asimov)
Fat Man.
See
plutonium bomb
Faust, Johann
Fells, Ian
Feodosia (Ukraine)
Black Death and the siege of
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard
firewalls
flagellum
Florida
rising seas and
wildfires and
food, access to
foot-and-mouth disease as potential weapon
Forbidden Planet
(film)
France
maintaining nuclear deterrent, questioning
and nuclear weapons
Franck, James
Franck report
Frankenstein
(Shelley)
Frankenstein, Baron Victor (fictional character)
Hollywood and
Friends of the Earth
Frisch, Otto
G series nerve gases
gamma ray bursts
gamma rays
gas warfare
chlorine gas, effects of
Lewisite
mustard gas, effects of
nerve gases
phosgene gas, effects of
World War I, gas warfare in
World War II
Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide gas)
gaseous diffusion
and attempts to separate uranium 235
gasoline, explosive power of
Geiger counters indiscriminate use of
Geiger, Hans
Gell-Mann, Murray
Genesis
Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II)
Germany
and biological weapons
codes, cracking of
firebombing raids on
G series nerve gases
and gas warfare
Nazi concentration camps, cyanide gas and
and nuclear weapon development
Gillmor, Helen
global warming.
See
climate change
Global Crop Diversity Trust
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
model of the Earth’s climate
Gore, Al
Gould, Gordon
granite
background radiation level
gravity
gray goo scenario
Greek civilization
and the concept of the atom
fall of
Greek philosophers
Arabs and
Western scientific knowledge and
Green Goblin (fictional character)
Greene, Robert
greenhouse effect
and positive feedback
reducing
science reducing
Greenland
ice sheet, disappearance of
Guiney, Sue
H-bomb (hydrogen bomb)
Bikini Atoll test
Elugelab (Eniwetok Atoll) test
fallout
power of
radiation poisoning
the Sausage (H-bomb)
the Shrimp (H-bomb)
U.S. General Advisory Committee report on
H1 N1 (swine flu) outbreak
Haber, Clara
Haber, Fritz
hackers
Hague Convention of 1899
Hahn, Otto
Hamburg
firebombing raids on
Hammett, Dashiell
Hansen, Jim
Harris, Larry
Harteck, Paul
Hawking radiation
Heisenberg, Werner
Herculaneum
high-speed centrifuges and attempts to separate uranium 235
Hiroshima (bombing of)
after effects
death tolls
radiation sickness
Harry Truman on
Hitler, Adolph
Hoffman, Dustin
Holdren, John P.
Holy Sonnet 14
(Donne)
Homo cyberneticus
Homo hybridus
Homo sapiens (human beings)
artificially upgraded
emergence of
evolution of
nanoparticles, potential to harm
Neanderthals and
Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, The
(Greene)
human beings (Homo sapiens) artificially upgraded
evolution of
nanoparticles, potential to harm
Neanderthals and
Hurricane Katrina
hurricanes
death and destruction from
global warming and
hydrogen bomb
ice disappearance
global warming and
wildlife, effect on
Ice Nine
Inconvenient Truth, An
(film) facts, carelessness with
India
Bhopal disaster
economic growth
India/Pakistan border disputes
and nuclear weapons
industrial accidents
infections
bacterial
fungal
viral
information technology (disruption of)
accidents as cause of
addressing computers
cyberterrorism and
denial-of-service attacks
impact of
wireless connections, vulnerability of
See also
Internet
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
Internet
cyberterrorism
origins
viruses, trojans, and worms
wireless connections, vulnerability of
See also
information technology
Invisible Man (fictional character)
Iran
and nuclear weapons
Iran-Iraq war
Iraq’s use of nerve gas
iridium
isotope uranium 239
Israel
and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997
and nuclear weapons
Izrael, Yuri
Japan
and biological weapons
codes, cracking of
firebombing raids on
Hiroshima, bombing of
Nagasaki, bombing of
and tsunamis preparation
volcano monitoring technology
Jardine, Lisa
Joint European Torus (Culham, England)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Verne)
Joyce, James
K/Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event)
K/T (Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event)
and the dinosaurs
kangaroos
and methane output
Kennedy, John
Khrushchev, Nikita
killer machines
King, William
Konopinski, Emil
Korean War
cobalt 60, MacArthur’s plan to use
Krakatoa, East of Java
(film)
Krakatoa eruption
ash thrown up
Kurzweil, Ray
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste
Lang, Fritz
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
destructive materials, potential for
energy produced by
Hawking radiation
micro black holes
opposition to
strangelets, formation of
laser
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent
Legionnaires’ disease as potential weapon
Lehrer, Tom
Leucippus
Lewis, Winford Lee
Lewisite
Lilienthal, David
Lille Boy.
See
uranium bomb
livestock
and methane output
London
electricity and gas networks, IRA plot against
Los Alamos (New Mexico)
Lucretius
Luther, Martin
Luthor, Lex (fictional character)
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
MacArthur, Douglas
McCoy, Dr. (fictional character)
McKibben, Joe
McMillan, Edwin
McVeigh, Timothy
mad scientists
as dangers to the world
Einstein as image of
Hollywood and
the Nazis
stereotyping
talking brass head
See also
natural philosophy; science
Magnus, Albertus
Maiman, Theodore Harold
Making of Optical Glass in India, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, The,
Manhattan Project (University of Chicago)
Marlowe, Christopher
Marsden, Ernest
mass destruction
alien invasion
artificially upgraded humans
asteroid collisions
atomic devastation
biological weapons
chemical weapons
climate catastrophe
earthquakes
gamma ray bursts
hurricanes and tsunamis
industrial accidents
information technology, disruption of
nanotechnology
particle physics
Sun going nova
volcanos
mass extermination
K/Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene event)
K/T (Cretaceous-Tertiary event)
Tunguska (Siberia) event
Matsumoto, sarin attack on
matter, composition of
Meitner, Lise
Merton Collage (Oxford)
methane
livestock and
Siberian permafrost melting and
Metropolis
(film)
Mexico
swine flu (H1 N1) outbreak
Michell, John
micro black holes
Hawking radiation and
microchips, sabotaging
microorganisms
MILNET
MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccination
panic concerning
Morbius, Dr. (fictional character)
Moreau, Dr. (fictional character)
Morris, Robert
Morris, Robert, Sr.
Mount St. Helens
Mount Vesuvius
muons
and volcano monitoring
mustard gas
effects of
Nagasaki bombing
after effects
deaths from
and the Japanese surrender
“nano” as a prefix
nanobots
as weapons
nanofibers
nanoparticles
and carbon dioxide
human beings, potential to harm
and sunscreens
nanotechnology
applications
computer chips
gray goo scenario
military uses
molecular level, manipulating objects at
mutations
opposition to
replication process
See also
atoms
nanotubes
NASA
and ice disappearance
and the Yellowstone supervolcano
NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts conference (Arlington, Virginia)
National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center
National Security Agency (NSA)
natural philosophy
superstition toward
See also
mad scientists; science
natural selection
and evolutionary theory
Nazi concentration camps, cyanide gas and
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nemo, Captain (fictional character)
neptunium
nerve gas
effectiveness
G series nerve gases
sarin nerve gas
as terrorist weapon
V series nerve gases
VX nerve gas
NEST (Nuclear Emergency Support Team)
neutrons
New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina and
New Scientist
magazine
New York City
background radiation level
New York Herald Tribune,
New York Stock Exchange denial-of-service attack
New Zealand
telecommunications collapse
Newton, Isaac
Nicaragua
wildfires and
Nixon, Richard
North Korea
Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997
denial-of-service attack on the U.S.
and nuclear weapons
North Pole
ice disappearance and
nuclear decay
Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST)
nuclear fusion
nuclear fusion reactors
nuclear power plants
accidents at