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Authors: Brian Clegg
China Syndrome
explosions, fear of
International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor (ITER)
nuclear fusion reactors
pebble-bed reactors
safety of
nuclear proliferation
argument against
nuclear reactions
antimatter emissions from
key to
nuclear reactor
enriched uranium, production of
the first
key to
plutonium, production of
nuclear terrorism
dirty bombs
enriched uranium, availability of
an existing bomb, acquiring
extortion attempts
fissile material, obtaining
plutonium, ability to use
radiation detection devices
radioactive materials, availability of
smoke detectors and
United States and
nuclear weapons
atomic bomb, key to
C-bomb (cobalt bomb)
chain reaction
as a deterrence
early development of
fission bombs, boosting
Germany and
global nuclear war
Hiroshima, bombing of
Los Alamos (New Mexico)
Manhattan Project (University of Chicago)
Nagasaki, bombing of
nuclear attack, living with threat of
nuclear reactors and
plutonium bomb (Fat Man)
and radiation sickness
radium, discovery of
uranium bomb (Lille Boy)
Soviet Union, arms race with
Trinity test (White Sands, New Mexico)
See also
plutonium; uranium 235; uranium 238
nuclear weapons (H-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
ocean
seeding with iron filings
ocean
conveyor system collapse of
Oklahoma City bomb
On the Nature of Things
(Lucretius)
operations research
Oppenheimer, Robert
Order of the Rising Sun
Ordovician/Silurian event
Oregon State
power outages
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations,
Oxford University
Pakistan
India/Pakistan border disputes
and nuclear weapons
Paley, William
Pandora’s box
particle physics
antimatter
E = mc
2
See also
Big Bang; Large Hadron Collider
Paris
heat wave, casualties from
Passion for Science, A (ed. Wolpert/Richards)
Pasteur, Louis
Paul Clifford
(Bulwer-Lytton) opening passage
Pauli exclusion principle
Pearson, Ian
pebble-bed reactors
Perimetr doomsday system
Permian/Triassic event
Perrin, Jean
PET (positron-emission tomography) scanner
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
phosgene gas
effects of
pitchblende
plague bacteria
death from
development as a weapon
Pliocene epoch
carbon dioxide levels
Plutarch
plutonium
production of
plutonium bomb (Fat Man)
arrival on Tinian Island
Nagasaki, bombing of
power of
Trinity test (White Sands, New Mexico)
polar bears
global warming and
polonium
Pompeii
ports
radiation detection devices and
positive feedback
the greenhouse effect and
positrons
power, price of
power outages
global warming and
power-generation
cleaning up
using renewable resources
Prey
(Crichton)
Prokhorov, Alexander
Prospero (fictional character)
proteins
protons
quantum theory
quarks
Rabi, Isidor
radar
radiation detection devices
radiation poisoning
radiation sickness
death from
radium
and luminous clock dials
natural levels
Rain Man
(film)
Rats, Lice, and History
(Zinsser)
rays
death ray
energy rays
gamma ray bursts
laser
light rays
ray guns
Reagan, Ronald
Rees, Martin
relativity, general theory of
Richards, Alison
ricin
development as a weapon
Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections
(ed. Smith/Weiner)
robotic development
Robotus primus
Rosovsky, H.
Rössler, Otto
Rotwang (fictional character)
Rutherford, Ernest
Saint Januarius
blood, liquefaction of
Sakharov, Andrey
San Francisco
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak
Sancho, Luis
sarin nerve gas
Tokyo subway system attack
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak
Schawlow, Arthur Leonard
Schwarzschild, Karl
science
danger of
Greek philosophers
the Nazis and
and World War II
See also
mad scientists; natural philosophy
science fiction
scientists
as dangers to the world
Einstein as image of
Hollywood and
the Nazis
stereotyping
talking brass head
See also
natural philosophy; science
scintillator
sea-level rises
and costal cities
and storm surges
water expansion and
sea-level rises
water expansion and
Seaborg, Glenn
seaborgium
Sedilliot, Charles-Emile
Sellers, Peter
sewage services (Australia) terrorist attack on
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Shultz, George
SI (Système International) units
Siberian permafrost melting of
Singularity
smallpox
as potential weapon
smallpox-riddled blankets
as biological weapons
Smith, Alice Kimball
smoke detectors
Snow, C. P.
Soil Association
solar shield
and global warming
Soviet Union
and biological weapons
biological weapons, testing on the population
Biopreparat
and the cold war
Cuban missile crisis
the iron curtain
Kazakhstan test
Lysenko’s agricultural theory
nuclear program
nuclear program, espionage and
Perimetr doomsday system
Sputnik
United States, arms race with
space elevator
space flight, development of
Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
deaths from
Spock, Mr. (fictional character)
Sputnik
Stalin, Joseph
Star Trek
(film and TV series)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
(TV series)
“Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative
Steffen, Will
Steiner, Achim
Stimson, Henry
Stoll, Clifford
storm surges
and sea-level rises
strangelets, formation of
Strangelove, Dr. (fictional character)
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty
Sumbawa (Indonesian) eruption
Sun
Earth’s size relative to
going nova
nuclear fusion as energy source
rays as weapon
solar shield and global warming
superhuman intelligence
Superman (fictional character)
supernova
supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems
vulnerability of
Sweeney, Charles
Nagasaki bombing
swine flu (H1 N1) outbreak
Sylvester II, Pope (Gerbert of Aurillac)
Syria
Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997
Szilard, Leo
Tajikistan glaciers
talking brass head
Teller, Edward
Tempest, The
(Shakespeare)
Terminator
(film series)
terrorism (and terrorists)
biological weapons, ease of manufacture and acquiring
and chemical weapons
and disruption
and nerve gas
weapons of mass destruction, economics of
terrorism (cyberterrorism)
and addressing computers
denial-of-service attacks
microchips, sabotaging
viruses, trojans, and worms
wireless connections, vulnerability of
terrorism (nuclear)
dirty bombs
enriched uranium, availability of
an existing bomb, acquiring
extortion attempts
fissile material, obtaining
plutonium, ability to use
radiation detection devices
radioactive materials, availability of
smoke detectors and
United States and
thalidomide
thermonuclear reaction (nuclear fusion)
Thin Man.
See
uranium bomb
Thin Man
(Hammett)
Three Mile Island
accident at
Geiger counters, indiscriminate use of
Tibbets, Paul
Hiroshima, bombing of
TNT, explosive power of
tokomak
Tokyo
firebombing raids on
Tokyo subway system sarin attack on
Toronto
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak
Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, The
(Marlowe)
Triassic/Jurassic event
Trinity test (White Sands, New Mexico)
trojans
tropical forests from carbon sink to carbon source
Truman, Harry
on bombing of Hiroshima
and the H-bomb
tsunamis (tidal wave)
death and destruction from
Southeast Asia (2004)
warning systems
Tunguska (Siberia) event
Turco, Richard P.
Turing, Alan Mathison
Tuvalu Islands sea-level rises and
typhoons.
See
hurricanes
typhus
development as a weapon
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
U.S. General Advisory Committee report
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
UFOs
Ulam, Stanislaw
Ulysses
(Joyce)
UN Atomic Energy Commission
UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Union Carbide
Bhopal (India) plant disaster
United Kingdom
and biological weapons
electricity and gas networks, Irish
Republican Army plot against
maintaining nuclear deterrent, questioning
and nuclear weapons
power outages
soil switching from carbon sink to carbon source
wildfires and
United States
and biological weapons
eastern seaboard, rising seas and
West Coast electricity grid, vulnerability of
United States (and nuclear weapons)
and the cold war
Cuban missile crisis
Hiroshima bombing
Los Alamos (New Mexico)
Manhattan Project (University of Chicago)
Nagasaki bombing
nuclear attack, living with threat of
Soviet Union, arms race with
V series nerve gases