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London 17, 43, 54, 55, 70, 116, 119, 122, 141, 151–2, 190, 194, 198, 203, 209–19, 222, 225–6, 229, 230–31, 234–5, 250, 256, 259, 269, 291, 333, 342–3, 372–3, 380, 385, 392, 402, 408, 428, 437, 439, 441

London, Jack 277, 316, 328, 353

‘The Unparalleled Invasion’ 239–41, 242, 387

Loos, Battle of 117, 439

Los Alamos 246, 286–7, 305–6, 356, 359

see also Manhattan Project

Lucas, Jim 301

Lucky Dragon 127, 129, 366–7, 370, 375

Lumière, Louis 45

Lusitania 122

Lütge, Hermann 87

Luxembourg, Rosa 153

Lyon, Sue 403

MacArthur, General Douglas 301, 379, 432

McCarthy, Senator Joseph 24, 32, 357

MacDonald, Anson see Heinlein, Robert A.

McMillan, Edwin 34, 314

McNamara, Robert 397, 400

MAD 107, 406

Mad Max films 348

‘mad scientist’ xviii, xx–xxi, 43, 46, 49, 68, 88, 121, 123, 140, 183, 185, 188, 229, 236, 238, 250, 295, 296, 304, 370, 379–80, 393, 401, 422–7

see also ‘saviour scientist’

Madách, Imre, The Tragedy of Man 190–91, 250–51

Maeterlinck, Maurice, La Vie des Abeilles 211

malaria 242

Malraux, André 97

The Walnut Trees of Altenburg

88–92, 102–3

Mandl, Otto 194, 195–6, 292

Manhattan Project xx, 14, 16, 29, 159, 230, 257, 266

authorization 272

bomb designs 307–8

command of 278

funding 267–8

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

Met Lab 33, 274, 305

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

number of people involved 118, 306

Oppenheimer appointed head 285–6

role of Mark Oliphant 273

sites 286–7, 305

targeting 321–2, 324–5, 327

Trinity test 307, 308–16, 309, 312

views of scientists regarding atomic bomb 274, 321–2, 327

women scientists 174

MANIAC 358

Mann, Thomas

The Magic Mountain 29, 46–7, 302

‘Mario and the Magician’ 152

March, Peyton C. 115

Mark, Herman 165

Marshall, John Jr 174, 272

Marx, Groucho 410

Mason, James 403

Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator and Computer 358

Matrix, The 391

Maugham, W.Somerset, The Magician 73

May, Karl 166

Mayer, Douglas 288

Meitner, Lise 93, 131, 154, 155,

179, 182, 205–6, 209, 235,

252–4

Méliès, Georges 45

Mengele, Joseph 245

Merritt, Ernest 59–60, 61, 62

Met Lab 33, 274, 305

Metropolis 179, 188, 423

Metropolis, Nicholas 358

Midgley, Thomas 172–3

Mike test 13, 359–60

Miles, The Gas War of 1940 225–6

Military Policy Committee (USA)

322

Miller, Walter M., A Canticle for

Leibowitz 338, 388

Minuteman missiles 407, 433

Mitchell, William (Billy) 198–9

Mittelbau-Dora 209

Moffett, Cleveland 69–74

Moore, Ward, ‘Lot’ 348

Morrison, Philip 311

Moseley, Henry 120

Moszkowski, Alexander 143, 144

Muller, Hermann 19

Mumford, Lewis 426

‘Gentlemen: You are mad!’ 382, 384, 392

mustard gas 88, 115, 117, 118, 119, 379

mutually assured destruction 107

N-bomb 360

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita 402

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

see also plutonium bomb

Nathan, Charlotte 87

Nathanson, Isaac R., ‘The World Aflame’ 231–4, 232

National Defense Researc Committee (NDRC) (USA)

272

Neddermeyer, Seth 308

neptunium 34

Nernst, Walther 131, 144–5, 155

neutrons 6, 144, 146, 186–9, 215,

274

bombardment of uranium with 251–4

New York 19, 24, 26, 30, 45, 56, 77, 152–3, 179–80, 190–91, 198, 204, 223, 228, 240, 242, 247–8, 254, 258–62, 272–4, 299, 306, 322, 344, 364, 374, 384, 409, 411, 413, 416, 423, 429

New York Herald Tribune 341

Newcomb, Simon, His Wisdom the Defender 112, 244

Newman, Bernard, Armoured

Doves 226

Newman, James R. 412, 415–16

Newton, Sir Isaac 141–2

Nicholas II, Tsar 105

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

Nicolson, Harold, Public Faces

226–7, 301–2

nitrogen synthesis 100, 101

Nobel, Alfred 69, 98–9, 138, 315

Nobel Prizes 65, 68–9, 93, 138, 164, 181, 230, 254, 255, 257,

301

Noddack, Ida 251

Nolde, Emil 191–2

North Korea 413, 438

Norton, Roy, The Vanishing Fleets 112–13

Novick, Aaron 26

Noyes, Pierrepoint B., The Pallid Giant ( Gentlemen: You Are Mad ) 264–5, 384

nuclear chain reaction 6–8, 34, 68, 145–6, 206, 216–23, 230–31, 234–6, 255, 257–63, 269–70, 274, 311, 314, 329–30

in fiction 127, 145, 202–4, 218–22, 231–4, 250–51, 292–6, 387, 395

H-bomb 282, 358

nuclear fission 6, 251–63, 281, 287

nuclear fusion 6, 281–2, 358

nuclear reactors 173–4, 199, 268, 280, 306

breeder reactor 174–5, 285

CP-1 3–11, 5, 12–13, 33, 34, 173–4, 274, 275, 280–81, 307, 419–20

development in Germany 283

fast neutron reactors 175

in fiction 292–4

nuclear proliferation 200, 438

nuclear tests 13, 35, 127, 129, 359–60, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374–5, 377, 378, 380, 386, 394, 407–9, 413, 437, 441

Oak Ridge 305

Office of Emergency Planning (USA) 350

Office of Scientific Research and Development (USA) 272

Offut Air Force Base 349–50

Oliphant, Mark 269–72, 273

On the Beach 27, 388–90, 391–3, 441

Operation Backfire 284

Operation Crossroads 362, 380

Operation Gomorrah 318

Operation Tumbler 394

Oppenheimer, J.Robert 186, 301, 344, 398, 438

and H-bomb 14, 15, 281–2, 357, 358

Manhattan Project 285–6, 287, 307

post-war security problems 357, 360

and Szilard 324–5

and Szilard’s petition 326, 327

Trinity test 127, 310, 315–16

visit to Germany 159–60

OSRD 272

Ostwald, Wilhelm 61

Owen, Dean, End of the World 348

Owen, Wilfred 95

Pakistan 438

Paracelsus 72–3

Paris Gun 123

particle accelerators 215–16

Paths of Glory 402

Pauli, Wolfgang 155, 176, 184, 185, 251

Pauling, Linus 19

Pearl Harbor 272, 343, 345, 349, 362, 386

Peierls, Genia 306

Peierls, Rudolf 269–72, 306, 320

Penney, Sir William 371–2

Pentagon War Room 397–8, 414

Perimetr system 433–6

Perrin, Jean 38

Peterson, Val 378

Petit Inventeur, Le 168

phosgene 88, 117–18

photons 132, 181, 187

PIC 300

Pioneer Regiment 93, 95

pitchblende 59–60, 61–2

Planck, Max 131, 144–5, 154, 155

Planet of the Apes films 27, 384–5

Plath, Sylvia, ‘Doomsday’ 27

plutonium

in breeder reactors 174, 175

creation 305

discovery 32–6

isotopes 34

Simons’ theft of 29–32

toxicity 31, 35

plutonium bomb 40, 268, 272, 274, 281, 343

critical mass 307, 332

design 308, 358

fallout from testing 35

Nagasaki 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 332–6, 335

Trinity test 307, 308–316, 309, 312

poison gas xix, 249, 379

airborne attack 119

in drama 83, 100, 103–4, 139

in fiction 88–92, 105–6, 111, 224–6, 247–8, 296

in poetry 95, 98, 243

public reaction to 115

World War I xix, 84–97, 89, 101–5, 106, 115–20, 126, 353, 439