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Authors: Brian Clegg
See also
nuclear terrorism
United States Air Force
and antimatter weapon
509 th Composite Group
United States Department of Defense
denial-of-service attack
See also
ARPA; ARPANET; DARPA
Universe: An Owner’s Manual, The
(Rosovsky)
University of Chicago.
See
Manhattan Project
University of Chicago Round Table
(NBC radio show)
UNIX operating system
sendmail program
Upgrade Me
(Clegg)
uranium 235
bomb based on separated uranium 235
uranium 238
and nuclear power plants
See also
isotope uranium 239
uranium bomb (Lille Boy)
arrival on Tinian Island
Hiroshima, bombing of
power of
urban heat waves
casualties from
V series nerve gases
Venus
Verne, Jules
Vinge, Vernor
viruses
volcanos
death from
Krakatoa eruption
monitoring technology
Mount St. Helens
Mount Vesuvius
Sumbawa (Indonesian) eruption
Yellowstone supervolcano
von Leeuwenhoek, Antoni
Vonnegut, Kurt
VX nerve gas
Wagner, Walter
Wakefield, Andrew
Walton, Ernest
War Research Service (Camp Detrick)
WarGames
(film)
Washington State power outages
water shortages
ice and
See also
droughts
“We Will All Go Together When
We Go” (Lehrer song)
weapons of mass destruction
antimatter weapon
hydrogen bomb
weather
global warming and
power outages and
Weiner, Charles
Wells, H. G.
West Coast electricity grid vulnerability of
Western scientific knowledge
Greek philosophers and
White House
denial-of-service attack
Wigner, Eugene
wildfires
William of Malmesbury
Winter, Chris
wireless connections vulnerability of
Wirth, Tim
Wolpert, Lewis
World War I
death toll
gas warfare
Hague Convention and
World War II
biological weapons
death toll
firebombing raids
G series nerve gases
Hiroshima, bombing of
Nazi concentration camps, cyanide gas and
Nazi scientists and
science and
V series nerve gases
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Meteorological Organization
World Set Free, The
(Wells)
World Wide Web
worms
Commwarrior (cell phone worm)
Robert Morris’s ARPANET worm
X-Files
(TV series)
Yellowstone supervolcano
Ypres (Belgium), gas warfare at
ARMAGEDDON SCIENCE
Copyright © 2010 by Brian Clegg. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clegg, Brian.
Armageddon science: the science of mass destruction / Brian Clegg.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 978-0-312-59894-5
1. Science—Social aspects. 2. Research—Moral and ethical as pects. 3. Armageddon. I. Title.
Q175.5.C54 2010
303.48'3—dc22
2010032524