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alpha radiation 63, 186, 187, 234

Alternate Joint Communications

Center (USA) 349

Alvarez, Luis 257, 357, 360

Amazing Stories 124, 167, 169, 231–4, 232 , 293

American Civil War 102

ammonia 100

Anderson, Herbert 6, 9, 275 , 314

Anderson, Poul, Thermonuclear Warfare 351

Apollo space project 283

Archimedes 123

arms race 323–4, 401, 407

Arnold, James R. 25, 27, 378–9

Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat, L’ 45

Arrowsmith, Pat 439

ASDIC 123

Astounding Science Fiction 291–2, 294, 296, 369

Atomic Age Opens, The 341

Atomic Alert 342

atomic bomb (A-bomb) xx, 281, 282, 256

design 270, 307–8

in drama and fiction 109, 112, 115, 127, 129, 196–200, 226–9, 231–4, 249–51, 292, 294–7, 345–9, 346

Germany 257–60, 265–6, 282–3, 291

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Hiroshima 6, 19, 34, 134, 270, 298, 307–8, 316, 328–32, 334, 368, 382, 384, 435

Nagasaki 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 298, 308, 332–6, 335, 358, 384

origin of name 115, 197

press stories about 256, 287–91, 376, 384

scepticism about 256–7, 269

Soviet Union 341, 357

subcommittee to assess feasibility (UK) 270

United Kingdom 269–72, 342–3, 372–3

views of Manhattan Project scientists on the use of 321–2

see also Manhattan Project and Advisory Committee on Uranium

atomic energy 143–4, 202–3, 216, 234, 265, 276

in fiction and film 127, 130, 145, 202–4, 231, 291–4, 293, 300, 302, 345, 422

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 342, 357, 362, 367, 379, 409

atomic science, history of 36–51, 58–79

atomic structure, theories 37, 62–3, 76–7, 186

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (UK) 437

atoms 37, 62–3, 76–7, 132

splitting 143–6, 251, 254, 381, 388, 411

Atoms for Peace Award 420

Attlee, Clement 342

Auden, W.H. 152

Auld, Samuel 94, 102

Aum Shinrikyo 249, 438

Auschwitz 92, 245, 384

Back to the Future films 43

Bacon, Francis 98

Baker, Josephine 153

Baldwin, Stanley 198, 341

Ball, Hugo 131

Ballard, J.G. 384

balloons 116

Balzac, Honoré de, Quest for the Absolute 51

Bannister, Roger 377

Barr, Densil Neve, The Man with

Only One Head 385–6

Barr, Robert, ‘The Doom of

London’ 385

BASF 100

Baskerville, Chas 106

Batory 344

Beast from 20,000 Fathoms , The 370

Becker, Herbert 186, 187

Beckett, Samuel 385

Beckmann, Max 152

Becquerel, Henri 58–9, 68, 70

Becquerel rays see radioactivity

Bell, Thomas 415

Beneath the Planet of the Apes 365, 384–5, 393

Benn, Tony 375, 437

Berlin 151–4, 177, 191–2, 208, 407

Berlin Wall 407

Bernstein, Jeremy 413–14

Berthelot, Marcelin 56

beryllium 186, 187, 231–4, 235, 296

beta radiation 63

Bethe, Hans 15, 16, 18, 180, 322, 356, 409

and CP-1 280–81

and H-bomb 20, 23, 357, 359, 414

Manhattan Project 306, 307

refusal to work with Teller 360

Trinity test 309

University of Chicago Round Table broadcast 18–24

Beveridge, William 211

Bevin, Ernest 342

Big Science 20, 296, 355

Bihaly, Lazislas 172

Bikini Atoll tests 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8

biological weapons xix, 103, 226, 352–3, 382, 433

in fiction 106, 110–11, 200, 226–7, 239–41, 348, 351

Japan 244–7

United States 241–2, 353

BIR 120, 123

Birkenau 92

Blair, Bruce G. 433, 434, 435

Blue Danube 372

Bohr, Niels 180–82, 184–5, 235, 236, 316, 321

atomic model 186, 253

at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquium 155

at Los Alamos 305

and nuclear fission 254–5, 259, 289

scepticism about atomic bomb 256–7, 269

Bond, James 401

Borden, William, There Will Be No Time 362

Born, Max 94, 135, 138, 154, 209–10, 214, 320

Bosch, Carl 100

Bothe, Walther 181, 186, 187

Bovril 56

Boyle, Hal 339–40

Bradbury, Norris E. 309

Bragg, Sir William 124

Brailsford, H.N. 194

Bravo test 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374, 378, 386

breakdown of society 343, 348–9, 351, 373, 384, 411

Brecht, Bertolt 208

‘The Legend of the Dead Soldier’ 140

The Life of Galileo 140, 393

‘1940’ 224

The Threepenny Opera 152

breeder reactors 174–5, 285

Briggs, Lyman J. 267, 271

Board of Inventions and Research (UK) 120, 123–4

Brodie, Bernard 97, 412, 414

Bronowski, Jacob 218, 334

Brown, Frederic, ‘The Weapon’ 381

Brown, Harrison 18–24, 18 , 374, 386, 400, 420

Browne, Maurice, and Robert Nichols, Wings Over Europe 228–9, 256, 302

Brownian motion 132

Bryant, Peter see George, Peter

Buchan, Alastair 403

Buchenwald 208–9

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 25–6, 352, 371, 375, 400, 412–13, 419–20, 421

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Coming Race 55–6, 107

Bund, Der 192, 194–5

‘bunker buster’ bomb 435

Burchett, Wilfred 331–2

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 see CP-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