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141–2, 160

George, Peter 28, 421, 424, 426, 428, 429–30, 432, 434

The Big H 403

Commander One 429

Hong Kong Kill 403

Nuclear Survivors 429

Red Alert ( Two Hours to Doom ) 402, 403, 404, 405–6, 411–13, 416, 418, 421, 429, 430

Germany

in the 1920s 151–4

development of atomic bomb

265–6, 282–3

revolution after World War I 137, 138–9

under the Nazis 207–10

Gernsback, Hugo 124–6, 162, 167, 169, 193, 305

Gerstell, Richard, How to Survive

an Atomic Bomb 367

global warming 389–90, 441

Goddard, Robert 205

Godfrey, Hollis, The Man Who

Ended War 112, 113, 114

Godzilla ( Gojira ) 73, 77, 368,

370–71, 377

Goebbels, Joseph 177

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust xxi, 73, 100–101, 139, 182–6, 190, 205, 208, 213, 219, 221, 244, 363, 380, 431–2

Golding, William 385

Goldsmith, Hyman 25

graphite 6, 7, 8, 266, 268, 281

Greek fire 103, 104

Green, Georgia 314

Greenwalt, Crawford H. 5

Grossmann, Marcel 160

Grosz, George 152

Ground Zero, Trinity test 308

Groves, General Leslie R. 278–9, 285–6, 301, 305, 310, 315, 321, 322, 325, 327–8, 354

Grünewald, Matthias, Isenheim Altarpiece 315

Guest, Val 411

gunpowder 98

Gute Kamerad, Der 167

H-bomb see hydrogen bomb

Haber, Clara 83–7, 131, 441

Haber, Fritz xix, 84, 99–101, 108, 111, 117, 136 , 140, 144–5, 177, 209, 210, 438

and aerial bombardment 119

at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquia 155

development of poison gas 83–97, 103–5

and Einstein 135–6

Nobel Prize 138

as refugee 210, 212–13, 214

synthesis of ammonia 100

as war criminal 137–8, 139

Haber, Hermann 83, 87

Haber, Ludwig 105

Hahn, Otto 209, 251, 266

and cobalt bomb 378

at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute 210

in Kapp Putsch 153–4

and nuclear fission 252–4, 255, 256, 287

work on poison gas 92–3

Hal 417

Haldane, J.B.S. 103

Callinicus 103

Hall, Austin, ‘The Man Who Saved the Earth’ 169

Hamburg 318

Hanford 305–6

Harris, Air Marshal Arthur 317

Harrison, Tony, Square Rounds 83, 100, 104

Harteck, Paul 259–60

Hartley, Sir Harold 214

Hearst, William Randolph 44

heat rays 123, 126 see also death rays

Heinlein, Robert A.

‘Blowups Happen’ 292

‘Solution Unsatisfactory’ 296–300, 324

Heisenberg, Werner 8, 155, 176, 182, 266, 282–3, 291

Hersey, John 316

Hertz, Gustav 93, 155

Hesse, Hermann, The Glass Bead Game 192

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

Hirst, Sir Hugo 218–19, 234

Hitler, Adolf 118, 137, 151, 152, 153, 177, 189, 207, 209, 210, 283, 288, 399, 417, 430

Holland Report 138

Homer, Hymn to Apollo 71

Honda, Ishirō 371

Hoover, Commander Gilbert C.

267

Horthy de Nagybánya, Miklós 149

hotline, White House–Kremlin 429

Hudson Institute 415

Huelsenbeck, Richard 131

Hughes, G.W.G. 96

Hugo Awards 124, 416

Hungarian Association of Socialist Students 150

‘Hungarian Quartet’ xx, 159, 176, 214, 260, 354, 355, 364

Hungary following World War I 149–50, 355

Hussein, Saddam 118

Huxley, Aldous 285

Brave New World 227

hydrogen bomb xx–xxi, 281, 340–41, 354, 377, 414

authorization 340

Berkeley meeting 281–2

Bravo (Bikini Atoll) test 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374, 384

decision to develop 13–15, 354

development 356, 358–9, 371–2

doomsday see doomsday bomb

fuel 189, 356–7

lobbying for 354, 356–7

Mike test 13, 359–60

opposition to development 13–14, 15–24

on ships 22–3, 364

Shrimp 365–6

Soviet Union 341, 368, 371–2

United Kingdom 342–3, 371–3, 437

hydrogen cyanide 91–2

I Aim at the Stars 425

ICBMs 190, 283, 284, 285, 290–91, 362, 407, 408, 422, 433, 435

Ikeda, Seiko 330

incendiary bombs 117, 199, 269, 317–20, 352

India 438

indium 235

Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla 430

Institute for Strategic Studies, London 402, 403, 407

Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen 180, 181–2

intercontinental ballistic missiles 190, 283, 284, 285, 290–91, 362, 407, 408, 422

Interim Committee 323–5

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 78

Invasion USA 340

Invisible Man, The 185, 236

Iran 438

Iraq 118, 228, 437–8, 441

Irwin, Will 119–20, 249

Isherwood, Christopher, Berlin Stories 152

Ishii, Shiro xix, 244–7, 285, 305, 353, 438

isotopes 34

Israel 438

Japan

biological weapons 244–7

as target of atomic bomb 322–36

JIGSAW 349

Johnston, John Lawson 56

Johnstone, William W., Ashes series 348

Joint Inter-Services Group for the Study of All-Out Warfare (UK) 349

Joliot-Curie, Frédéric 181, 187, 230, 257–8, 259

Joliot-Curie, Irène 187, 230

Jornada del Muerto 249, 309

Jünger, Ernst 97

Just, Gerhardt 85–6

Kaempffert, Waldemar 192

Kahn, Herman 28, 412, 414–18, 424, 426, 428

On Thermonuclear War 415–16, 417, 424

Kaiser, Georg, Gas I/ Gas II 139

Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes 83, 93, 131, 158, 163, 205, 207, 209, 210

Kandinsky, Wassily 77

Kapp Putsch 153–4

Kellermann, Bernhard, Der Tunnel 166

Kennedy, President John F. 396–402, 405, 408, 421, 428, 433

Kennedy, Joseph W. 33

Kennedy, Robert 400, 401

Kenney, General George C. 368

Khrushchev, Nikita 391, 397, 400–401, 407, 408, 409, 413, 429, 432–3

Kipling, Rudyard, ‘As Easy as ABC’ 228

Kiss Me Deadly 345

Kissinger, Henry 28, 412, 414, 424

Kistiakowsky, George B. 313

Koestler, Arthur 192

Kokura 332

Kollwitz, Käthe 138

Kornfeld, Albert (Albert Korodi) 159, 172, 306

Kowarski, Lew 258–9

Kramer, Russell 29, 32

Krassa, Zinaide 84–5, 86

Kraus, Lili 194

Kubrick, Stanley 27–8, 393, 402–3, 409, 411–12, 413, 416–18, 421, 422, 424–5, 428–9, 430–31

Kurchatov, Igor 368

Lanchester, Frederick W. 317–18

Lang, Daniel 367

Langevin, Paul 37–8, 63, 188–9

Langsdorf, Martyl 26

Lapp, Ralph E. 379

Lartigue, Jacques Henri 116

Lasswitz, Kurd, Auf zwei Planeten 205

Latter, Albert, Our Nuclear Future 391

Laurence, William L. 254, 286, 294,368–9, 420

and atomic bomb 289–90

and CP-112

and doomsday bomb 24, 374–5, 405

and Manhattan Project 266

and Nagasaki bomb 266, 333

Trinity test 310, 311, 313

Lawrence, Ernest O. 164, 271–2, 287, 357, 360

Lax, Peter 306

Lay, D.H.F. 376

Le Bon, Gustave 68

Lehrer, Tom 285

LeMay, General Curtis E. 205, 319–20, 350, 353, 397, 401, 414, 432

Lenard, Philipp 177

Leonardo da Vinci 102

Leucippus 37

Leviathan 179

Lewis, W.Lee 119, 120

Lewisite 119, 119–20, 225

Libby, Willard F. 409–10

Liebknecht, Karl 153

Lilienthal, David E. 14, 15–16, 24, 357

Lindemann, Frederick 124, 235, 269

‘liquid air’ 56–7, 66

‘Little Boy’ bomb see Hiroshima bomb

Livermore Laboratory 357, 360

Lolita 402, 403, 418, 422, 426