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The Shape of Things to Come

224–5, 304–5

‘The Stolen Bacillus’ 200

The Time Machine 74, 190–91

Tono-Bungay 75–6, 199, 332

The War in the Air 116, 225

The War of the Worlds 106, 111, 126, 196, 205, 247–9, 343

The World Set Free 112, 115, 196–8, 199–201, 201–2, 203–4, 205, 218–23, 230, 242, 265, 298, 302, 381, 387–8, 414, 438

Weltuntergangsromane 226

West Nile encephalitis 242

Wethersfield USAF base 439

Wheeler, Harvey, and Eugene Burdick, Fail-Safe 423

Wheeler, John 255, 340

Whitehead, Alfred North 74, 141

Wigner, Eugene xx, 156 , 176, 195, 354

admission of mistakes 420

Advisory Committee for Uranium 267, 268

and CP-1 5, 10, 12, 174

and death dust 300

at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquia 155–6, 157

doubts regarding atomic weapons 12, 260, 261

and Einstein’s statistical mechanics course 159

friendship with and opinion of Szilard 5, 158, 160, 164, 165, 166, 179, 195, 234, 260, 255, 276

friendship with Teller 355

friendship with von Neumann 361

in Germany 153, 155–6, 157, 163

meeting with Rutherford 234–5

political views 355

at Princeton 19, 179, 207, 214, 255

and warning letter to Roosevelt

261

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 42, 84, 137

Wilkinson, A., ‘When the Earth Melted’ 123

Wilson, Robert 302

Wintle, W.J. 53, 54

Wood, Robert Williams, and Arthur Train, The Man Who Rocked the Earth 126–7, 128, 129–31, 167, 277, 411

Woods, Leona 4–5, 174, 275

Woolf, Virginia 212

Woomera 375

World War I

ending of 135–7

rumours of new weapons 115–16

use of poison gas 84–97, 101–5, 106, 117–20

use of tanks 106–7

weaponry 99, 106

World War II

air war 304, 317–20, 334

beginning of 304

censorship of US media 290, 291, 296

ending of 316–17, 321, 334–6

fictional atomic superweapons during 291–300

German atomic bomb project 257–60, 265–6, 282–3, 291

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

Japanese biological weapons project 244–7

monitoring for use of radioactive weapons 271, 300

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

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

radiological warfare 271, 296–301

rumours of Nazi superweapons 288, 291

V- 2 rocket 189–90, 209, 283, 284, 285, 290–91, 424–5

see also Wernher von Braun and Manhattan Project

Wright, Orville 249

Wylie, Philip

‘The Paradise Crater’ 296

The Smuggled Atom Bomb 345, 346

Tomorrow! 345, 347–8, 386–8

X-rays 41–51, 59, 131, 165

in fiction and film 45, 46–51, 123

yellow fever 242

York, Herbert 357

York, Susannah 437

Ypres, poison gas attack 84, 94–7, 102, 117, 442

Zamyatin, Yevgeny, We 201

Zeisel, Eva (Eva Striker) 191, 211

Zemplén, Gyözö, Theory and Practical Applications of Electricity 169

Zeppelins 116, 119, 122, 248–9

Zinn, Walter H. 5, 6, 7, 9, 175, 259, 275

Zukunftsroman 166

Zyklon B 91–2

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