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Polanyi, Michael 154, 191, 207–8, 214

polonium 60–61, 186

Pope, Sir William 214

Porton Down 118

Potsdam Conference 243, 309, 316, 328

Priestley, J.B. 392

Doomsday Men 249–51, 256

Project Orion 379

protons 143–4, 186, 187

Prout, William 186

Pugwash Conference 406

quantum theory 132, 165, 176–7, 181, 185

Quarles, Donald A. 375

Rabi, Isidor 14, 163, 258, 310–11

Rabinowitch, Eugene 25, 158, 325, 413, 420

radar 124, 281

radiation sickness 35, 127, 129, 331–2, 366–7, 373, 393

radioactive decay 65–6

radioactive fallout see fallout

radioactivity 20, 315, 365

artificial creation 230

discovery and early experiments 38, 58–79

in fiction 75–6, 112–15, 126, 197–200, 203, 219, 386–90, 395

in film 345, 368–71, 380, 405, 422, 434

monitoring during World War II 271, 300

in poetry 52, 365

radiological warfare 271, 296–301

‘Radithor’ 72

radium 24, 38, 40, 57, 65–8, 133, 135

effects of and claims for 56, 69–74, 113

in fiction 75, 112, 126–7, 203–4, 219, 222

in film 380

isolation from pitchblende 59–62

in poetry 52

properties 61–2

radon 64, 66

RAND Corporation 413–14, 415, 416, 418, 426

Rathenau, Walther 177

Rayons Roentgen, Les 45

Reagan, President Ronald 412

Redgrave, Corin 437

refrigerators, Einstein and Szilard’s work on 170–73

respirators 102

Ridenour, Louis N. 291

Robida, Albert 107

La Guerre au vingtième siècle 106

robust nuclear earth penetrator 435

Romanisches Café 157, 164, 192

Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad 40–44, 48, 180

Röntgen (X) rays 41–51, 59

in fiction and film 45, 46–51, 123

Roosevelt, Eleanor 15

Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 261–3, 266–7, 272, 323

Rosenberg, Ethel 30

Rosenberg, Julius 30

Rosenbluth, Marshall 365–6

Rosenfeld, Léon 255Roshwald, Mordecai, Level 7 388, 392–3, 423

Rotblat, Joseph 257, 260, 301, 321–2

Rumsfeld, Donald 415

Ruska, Ernst 164

Russell, Bertrand 377, 392, 439

Russell Square, London 8, 210, 212–14, 216–18, 222, 230, 274, 333

Rutherford, Ernest 165, 233, 28 2

and atomic structure 181, 186

and the Curies 37–8

and death rays 12 4

and Haber 21 4

scepticism about atomic power 188, 202, 215–16, 217–18

and sonar 123splitting the atom 143–4

and Szilard 234–5

work on radioactivity 63–6, 67–8

Rutherford, Mary 37, 38

S-I project 272, 278 Sachs, Alexander 262, 263, 267, 268

Sacks, Oliver 71

Sackur, Irene 210

Sackur, Otto 85–6, 210

Sagan, Carl 285St Bartholomew’s Hospital 235

Sakharov, Andrei 352, 409–10

Saleeby, Caleb Williams 76–7

Salinger, J.D., The Catcher in the Rye 406

Salk, Jonas 430

Sargent, John Singer, Gassed 118

sarin 438

‘saviour scientist’ xviii–xix, xxi, 112–13, 121, 123, 125, 129, 137–9, 142, 169, 185, 202, 210, 229, 234, 240, 244, 277, 279, 296, 305, 315, 370, 380–81, 393, 406, 411, 420–21

see also ‘mad scientist’

Schelling, Thomas 429, 430

Schiller, Friedrich von, Die Jungfrau

von Orleans 137

Schr ödinger, Erwin 155, 176, 179,

von Orleans 137 213

science fiction 78, 105, 112, 165, 277, 291–303, 306, 341, 368

accuracy of predictions 302 , 368, 369

magazines xx, 105, 112, 124–6, 167, 291–2, 305, 341

in World War II 291–300, 301–2

see also specific magazines and stories

Seaborg, Glenn 32–4, 35, 222, 257, 314, 420

seaborgium 32

Segrè, Emilio 252, 311, 356, 360

Seitz, Frederick 18–24, 18

Sellers, Peter 421, 422, 425–6, 427

September 11 2001, aftermath 77, 115, 200, 344, 349

Serber, Robert 307, 364

Seven Days to Noon 17, 27, 380, 381

Sheehan, Perley Poore, and Robert H.Davis, ‘Blood and Iron’ 140–41

Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein 48, 51, 183, 247, 393

Shiel, M.P., The Yellow Danger 110–11, 247

Shils, Edward 25, 26, 151, 158

Shute, Nevil, On the Beach 27, 388–90, 391–2, 441

Silard, Bela 149–50, 159, 165–6, 167, 169, 254, 273

Simak, Clifford D., ‘Lobby’ 293–4

Simons, Sanford Lawrence 29–32, 31, 34, 35

Site R 349

Site Y 285–7, 306

‘SK’ bomb 97

Smith, Company Sergeant Major Albert Edward 439–41, 440

Smith, Alice K. 164, 302, 430

Smith, Bernard 439, 441, 442

Smith, George H., The Coming of the Rats 348

Smyth, Henry DeWolf 238, 279, 300

Snow, C.P. 187

‘A New Means of Destruction’ 287–8

society, fears of post-nuclear breakdown 343, 348–9, 351, 373, 384, 411

Society for the Protection of Science and Learning 212

Society for Space Travel 189

Soddy, Frederick xviii, 38, 78, 120, 134, 204, 264, 316

The Interpretation of Radium

130, 202–3, 384

predictions regarding atomic power 101, 105, 202

work on radioactivity 64, 65–6, 67–8

Somme, Battle of the 97

Sommerfeld, Arnold 137, 176

sonar 123

Southern, Terry, Candy 421

Southwold, Stephen see Miles

Soviet Union 355

arms race 323–4, 401, 407

atomic bomb 341, 357

cobalt bomb 375

Cuban Missile Crisis 396–402

H-bomb 341, 368, 372

Joe- 4 bomb 371

nuclear tests 407–9, 413, 441

Perimetr system 433–6

and purpose of first US atomic bombs 321, 322, 324, 325

Tsar Bomba super bomb 408–9, 410

space travel 196, 204–5, 292, 318, 354, 379, 390, 408, 422

Spartacus 402

special theory of relativity 78, 132, 134, 253

Speer, Albert 282, 283

Spender, Stephen 152, 191

spinthariscope 71, 219

SPSL 212

Stalin, Joseph 309

Star Wars 123

‘Star Wars’ defense initiative 249, 360

statistical mechanics 159–61, 175

Staudinger, Hermann 94

Stenhouse, John 102

Stevenson, Adlai 379, 405, 411

Stewart, Alfred Walter see Connington, J.J.

Stockton, Frank, The Great War Syndicate 107–10, 109

Strassmann, Fritz 252, 255, 256, 287

Strategic Air Command 350, 353, 415

Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) 249, 360

Strath, William 373

Strath Report 373

Stratton, George F., ‘The Poniatowski Ray’ 125

Strauss, Lewis L. 255–6, 367, 371, 373, 377

Strieber, Whitley

Day After Tomorrow, The 390

War Day 390

Striker, Eva 191, 211

Strindberg, August 64–5

Antibarbus 64

strontium-90 301, 370, 407

Stuart, Don A. see Campbell, John W.Jr

Sturgeon, Theodore 302–3

‘Artnan Process’ 292

sulphur 101–2

submarine warfare 120, 122, 389–90, 398, 433

‘Super’ see hydrogen bomb

supercritical chain reaction 6–7

Swan, Joseph 53

Swayne, Martin, ‘The Sleep Beam’ 123–4

Swinton, Ernest 107

Szilard, Bela see Silard, Bela

Szilard, Leo xx, xxi–xxii, 5, 18, 146, 275, 383

Advisory Committee for Uranium 267–8

‘Are We on the Road to War?’ lecture tour 412

in Berlin 154–62, 163–5, 169–73, 192

‘Big Bomb’ suitcase 151, 399

and breeder reactors 174–5

chain reaction patent 223, 231, 235

childhood 166–9

and CP-13–11, 12, 33, 173–4, 273–9, 280

and Cuban Missile Crisis 398–9, 400, 419

death 431

declaration condemning Japanese invasion of China 191, 236