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in fiction and film 27, 338, 384–95, 405–7, 411, 418, 422

cobalt-60xviii, 24–5, 63, 301, 379,384, 389–90

Cochrane, Thomas, Earl of Dundonald 101, 102

Cockcroft, John 187–8, 270, 379

cold war xvii, 356, 361, 406, 426, 433, 438

arms race 324, 348, 355, 362, 378, 391–2, 401, 407, 414

culture 345–9, 382–95, 426

Colgate, Stirling 287

Collier’s 340

Cologne 317–18

Committee of 100 439

Compton, Arthur Holly 9, 10, 272, 273, 276, 282, 295, 325, 327–8

computers 161, 358, 415, 417, 434–5

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 96

Conant, James B. 10, 266, 272, 282, 300, 357

opposition to H-bomb 14

Trinity test 314

in World War I 118

concentration camps 91–2, 208–9, 425–6

Connington, J.J., Nordenholt’s Million 145, 193, 233

Conrad, Joseph, The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story 78

conscientious objectors 142, 377, 439

Cooke, Alistair 261

Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (UK) 212

Cousins, Norman 164

Cox, Richard T. 191

CP-1 3–11, 5 , 33, 34, 274, 280–81, 307

cooling 173–4

fourth anniversary 275

tenth anniversary 12–13

twentieth anniversary 400, 419–20

Crookes, Sir William 40, 57, 66, 67–8, 71, 74, 75, 100, 123, 219

Crookes tube 40–41, 44

crossbow 98

Crosthwaite, C.H.T., ‘Röntgen’s Curse’ 48–9, 49–50

Cuban Missile Crisis 151, 396–402, 410, 420, 422, 429, 433, 438

Curie, Marie 37, 38, 39 , 40, 48, 58–62, 66, 68, 131, 188

Curie, Pierre 38, 39 , 40, 61, 66–7, 68–71, 230, 282

Dachau 208

Dadaists 131

Daghlian, Harry 35

Dally, Clarence 47–8

Dalton, John 37, 63, 64

Danysz, Jean 71–2, 129

Darwin, Charles 212

Davis, Chan 343–4

Davis, Robert H., and Perley Poore Sheehan, ‘Blood and Iron’

140–41

Day After Tomorrow, The 201, 390

Day the Earth Caught Fire, The 129, 411

Day the Earth Stood Still, The 353

death dust 296–301

death rays 123–8, 249, 265, 267

DEFCON 1 397–8

del Rey, Lester, ‘Nerves’ 292

Delbrück, Max 182 , 183

Democritus 37

dengue fever 242

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (UK) 124

Derby, Lord 119

deterrence 257, 342–3, 378, 414

deuterium 189, 281, 356

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquia 155–7

Dirac, Paul 180, 182, 185

dirty bomb 271, 300, 384, 387, 413

see also doomsday bomb and radiological warfare

Döblin, Alfred

Berlin Alexanderplatz 152

Mountains, Oceans and Giants

139–40

Dr Cyclops 380, 422

Dr No 401, 412, 422

Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb xx, xxi, 27–8, 121, 159, 201, 228, 363, 393, 402, 403, 405–7, 411–12, 414, 416, 418, 421–30, 434, 435

Donnan, Frederick G. 210, 213

Donne, John 315–16

doomsday bomb xvii–xviii, xxi, 20–22, 24–5, 26, 27, 68, 257, 352, 364, 370, 374–80, 382, 401–2, 413, 416–18, 422, 432–3, 438

in fiction 250, 265, 295, 381, 384–95, 402, 405–7, 416

doomsday clock 26, 27, 371, 400, 420

doomsday machine 402, 405–6, 416–18, 424, 430, 432, 433–6

definition 113

Dornberger, Walter 189

Dreadnought , HMS 113

Dresden 318–19

Du Pont 5, 306

dynamite 98–9

Dyson, Freeman 318, 379–80

Ebert, Friedrich 139

Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose 58

ecological movement 201, 376, 394

Eddington, Arthur 142

Edgewood Arsenal 118, 119

Edison, Thomas 44–5, 47–8, 53, 122, 245

Ehrenfest, Paul 182, 184, 185, 213

Einstein, Albert 6, 19, 20, 53, 67, 78, 131, 136, 163, 177, 179, 207, 213, 323, 421

attacks on and abuse of 177, 208

attitude to ending of World War I 136–7

in Berlin 153, 155–9, 161–2

and Bohr 181

childhood 167, 169

and Der Bund (The League) 194–5

and doomsday bomb 374, 389

fame 141–3, 157

family business 53

friendship with Szilard xx, 19, 20, 157–9, 161, 170–72, 192–4, 261–3, 323

general theory of relativity 132–5, 141–2, 160

and Haber 131, 135–6, 136

and nuclear fission 254, 261

opposition to H-bomb development 15, 340–41

position after World War I 138–9

renouncing German citizenship

209

Rutherford’s views on 64

special theory of relativity 6, 78, 132–4, 253

and splitting the atom 144–5

unified field theory 181, 185

warning letter to Roosevelt 261–3, 266–7

and H.G.Wells 193–4

work on refrigerators 170–73

Einstein, Elsa 135

Einstein Committee 19

Einstein–Szilard electromagnetic pump 171–2, 173–4, 175–6, 285

Eisenhower, President Dwight 355, 356, 359, 360, 362, 363, 363,

379, 411, 425

Electrical Experimenter, The 125–6, 167

electricity 53–5, 125, 169, 171

electromagnetic radiation 63

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer 358

electrons 62–3, 77, 144, 235

Eliot, T.S. 212

Elugelab 13, 360

Emergency Plans Book, The (EPB) 350–51

Empire State Building 179

Engels, Friedrich 92–3

ENIAC 358

Enrico Fermi Award 419

Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies 419

entropy 74

EPB 350–51

Eppinger, Alice 211

escalation 415

failsafe procedure 414, 423

fallout xvii, 14, 20, 23–4, 270–71, 341, 350, 356, 364, 367–8, 386–90, 395, 373–4, 382, 407, 413, 441

fallout shelters 409–10, 415 see also underground bunkers

Farrell, General Thomas F. 313, 332

fast neutron reactors 175

‘Fat Man’ bomb see Nagasaki bomb

Faulkner, William 16

Feld, Bernard 272

FEMA (USA) 350

Fermi, Enrico 5, 163, 165, 235, 236, 268, 273, 275, 289, 354, 356

and breeder reactors 174

and CP-15, 6, 7–11, 12, 33, 280

death 419

on Interim Committee 325

and Manhattan Project 306–7

and nuclear fission 251, 256, 258

opposition to H-bomb 14

and radioactive weapons 300–301

relationship with Szilard 7–8, 163, 174, 258, 268, 280

Trinity test 309–10, 311

in United States 254

Fermi, Giulio 306

Fermi, Laura 254, 301–2, 306, 307

Fermi, Nella 306

fertilizers, artificial 100

Feynman, Richard 309, 340, 360

firebombing 117, 199, 225, 269, 317–20, 352

Fisher, Admiral Lord 120

fission see nuclear fission and uranium

flame-throwers 106

Fleming, Ian 401

Flügge, Siegfried 257, 260

fluorescence 58–9

fluoroscope 45

Flury, Ferdinand 91

Forbidden Planet, The 380

Ford, Ford Madox 78

Forster, E.M. 225

Franck Committee 325

Franck, James 86, 93, 153–4, 155,

157, 325

Franck, Philipp 157

Frank, Pat, Alas, Babylon 388, 396

Frankenstein 188

Frau im Mond 211

Freon 172–3

Friedrich-Wilhelm University 154

Frisch, Otto 35–6, 209, 252–3, 269–72, 304, 361

Fukuryu Maru ( Lucky Dragon ) 127, 129, 366–7, 370, 375, 378

fusion see nuclear fusion

Gabor, Dennis 159, 163–4

‘gadget, the’ 305, 309

Gagarin, Major Yuri 408

Galilei Circle 150

Gallion, Jane, Biker 348

game theory 361

gamma radiation 63, 186–7

Gamow, George 180, 182, 214,

253, 356

Geiger, Hans 93, 155

general theory of relativity 132–5,