Abrams, Elliott
Acheson, Dean
Acheson-Lilienthal report
Advisory Committee on Uranium
AEC (Atomic Energy Commission)
Agreed Framework
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
Alamagordo test. See Trinity test
Alfonsín, Raul
Algeria
Allen, Thomas B.
Allison, Graham
Alperovitz, Gar
al Qaeda
Angola
anti-ballistic missile systems
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
anti-missile systems
anti-nuclear international standard: current positive trends, and future policy options, and nonproliferation regime, and prestige model
apocalyptism
Argentina
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
arms limitation agreements: and Cuban Missile Crisis, Johnson administration policies, Kennedy administration policies, Limited Test Ban Treaty, SALT. See also nonproliferation regime; nuclear arms reduction
Assured Nuclear Fuel Services Initiative
Atomic Audit (Schwartz)
atomic bombs, defined
Atomic Diplomacy (Alperovitz)
Atomic Energy Act (1946)
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
atoms
Atoms for Peace program
Attlee, Clement
Aum Shinrikyo
B-1 intercontinental strategic bomber
Baker-Cutler report
ballistic missiles: countries possessing, current positive trends, defined, and ballistic missiles nonproliferation regime, and nuclear arms race
ballistic missile submarines
Baruch, Bernard
Baruch Plan
Belarus
Ben Gurion, David
Berlin crisis (1961)
Bernstein, Barton
Berra, Yogi
beta-decay
Betts, Richard
Bhabha, Homi
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (India)
Bhutto, Zulfiqar Ali
Bigeye bomb
bin Laden, Osama
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC)
biological weapons
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)
Bird, Kai
BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) (India)
black market
Blair, Tony
Blix, Hans
Bohr, Niels
Bolton, John
bomb design
boosters
Brazil: and Atoms for Peace program, fuel production, New Agenda initiative
Brooks, Linton
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
BTWC (Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention)
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bundy, McGeorge
Bunn, George
Bunn, Matthew
bureaucratic actors. See domestic political model
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W. See Bush administration policies
Bush, Vannevar
Bush administration policies, anti-missile systems, and Cooperative Threat Reduction, as double standard, failures of, and fuel production, and Libya, and neoconservatism, new nuclear research, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, nonproliferation regime criticisms, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear technology exports, and nuclear terrorism, and outlaw states, overview, preventive war, and proliferation, Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, successes of
BWC (Biological Weapons Convention)
Byrnes, James
Campbell, Kurt
Canada
CANDU
Carnegie report
Carter, Ashton
Carter, Jimmy
centrifuges
Chadwick, James
Chafetz, Glenn
chain reaction
Chari, P. R.
chemical weapons
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Cheney, Richard
China: and India, and Japan, and national security model, and nuclear arms race, nuclear arsenal extent, and regional tensions, U.S. policies
Chirac, Jacques
Christopher, Warren
Churchill, Winston
civilian nuclear stockpiles
Clinton, Bill: and domestic political model, and nonproliferation regime, and Ukraine
Cohen, Avner
Cold War: and Atoms for Peace program, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, and nuclear risk, and regional tensions. See also nuclear arms race; U.S. nuclear guarantees
Committee on Assurances of Supply
Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
Compton, Arthur
Conan, Neal
Conant, James
Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR)
core
counter-proliferation. See also Bush administration policies
Coyle, Philip
critical mass
cruise missiles
CTBT (Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty)
CTR (Cooperative Threat Reduction)
Cuban Missile Crisis
cultural responses: Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, nuclear arms race
CWC (Chemical Weapons Convention)
Czech Republic
Davis, Zachary
Davy Crockett
de Gaulle, Charles
DeGroot, Gerard
Democritus
deterrence. See also national security model
Deutch, John
deuterium
developing countries
disarmament. See nuclear arms reduction
Dobrynin, Anatoly
domestic political model, and military establishment, overview, and political leadership, as proliferation barrier, and public opinion, and regional tensions, and scientific establishment, and U.S. policies
Donnelly, Thomas
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
dual-use capability. See also fuel production
economic drivers, and environmental costs, and fuel production controls, and Libya, and nuclear weapons development costs, overview, as proliferation barrier, and Ukraine
Egypt
Einhorn, Robert
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
ElBaradei, Mohamed: on antinuclear international standard, on Bush administration policies, on fuel production controls, on nuclear risk, on UN inspections
electromagnetic separation
enrichment. See also fuel production
environmental costs of nuclear weapons development
European Union
Fail-Safe
Fate of the Earth, The (Schell)
Fat Man. See also Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing
Ferguson, Charles
Fermi, Enrico
Fischer, David
fissile material
fission: defined, vs. fusion, overview of
fissionable material
FitzGerald, Frances
fizzle
Ford, Gerald
former Soviet Union. See also Cooperative Threat Reduction; specific countries
Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, The (Ferguson and Potter)
France: and Bush administration policies, and nuclear arms race, nuclear arsenal extent, and prestige model, and South Korea, and West Germany
Franck, James
Franck report
Frankel, Benjamin
Frisch, Otto
Fuchs, Klaus
fuel production: Baruch Plan, and Bush administration policies, future policy options, and nuclear terrorism, overview, and proliferation, as proliferation barrier, South Korea
Fulbright, William
fusion: and boosters, defined, overview. See also hydrogen bomb
future policy options, compromise approach, fuel production, nuclear terrorism, proliferation, regional conflict reduction, and U.S. policies
GAC (General Advisory Panel)
Gallucci, Robert
Gandhi, Indira
gas-centrifuge process
gaseous diffusion
General Advisory Panel (GAC)
Geneva Protocol (1925)
Germany
Gilpatric Committee
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
Goldgeier, James
Goldschmidt, Bertrand
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Goss, Porter
Great Britain. See United Kingdom
Groves, Leslie
GTRI (Global Threat Reduction Initiative)
Gulf War
gun assembly bomb design
Haass, Richard
Habiger, Eugene
Hahn, Otto
hair-trigger alert
Hanford reactors
heavy water. See also heavywater reactors
heavy-water reactors
Hersey, John
HEU. See highly enriched uranium
highly enriched uranium (HEU). See also fuel production
Hill, Christopher
Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing: bomb design, cultural responses, Franck report on, and Japanese nuclear policy, and Soviet nuclear weapons development
Hobbes, Thomas
Hobson, David
Holloway, David
Holocaust
Human Security Report
Humphrey, Hubert
Hurricane Katrina
Hussein, Saddam. See also Iraq
hydrogen bomb: defined, and national security model, and nuclear arms race, power of, and technology model
IAEA. See International Atomic Energy Agency
implosion bomb design
India: and Atoms for Peace program, Bush administration exports, and Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, and domestic political model, and economic drivers, and national security model, nuclear test, and prestige model, and regional tensions
INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty)
Interim Committee
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA): and antinuclear international standard, Bush administration policies, creation of, defined, and fuel production controls, Illicit Trafficking Database, and Iraq, and nonproliferation regime, and nuclear technology exports, and South Korea
International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation
international sanctions
Iran: Bush administration policies, and fuel production, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and nuclear black market, as outlaw state, and proliferation
Iraq: and national security model, nuclear/chemical weapons arsenals, Nuclear Posture Review on, UN inspections, U.S. war with
Ireland
isotopes
Israel: and Atoms for Peace program, and Bush administration policies, chemical weapons, and Iran, and national security model
Japan: and domestic political model, fuel production, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and proliferation
Joffe, Josef
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Joseph, Robert
Kagan, Robert
Kant, Immanuel
Kanter, Arnold
Kargil crisis
Kay, Daniel
Kazakhstan
Kean, Thomas
Keeny, Spurgeon
Kennan, George
Kennedy, John F.
Khan, Abdul Qadeer
kilograms (kg)
kilotons (kt)
King, Mackenzie
Kishi, Nobusuke
Kissinger, Henry
Kohl, Helmut
Kramer, Stanley
Kravchuk, Leonid
Krepon, Michael
Kristol, Irving
Kristol, William
Kuraishi, Tadao
Kurchatov, Igor
Landmine Treaty
laser enrichment method
Lavoy, Peter
Lawrence, Ernest
Ledeen, Michael
LeMay, Curtis
LEU (low enriched uranium)
Leverett, Flynt
Leviathan (Hobbes)
Levite, Ariel
liberal internationalism
Libya: and Bush administration policies, and economic drivers, and national security model, and nuclear black market, nuclear development abandonment
light water
light-water reactors
Lilienthal, David
Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT)
Little Boy. See also Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing
Los Alamos. See Manhattan Project
Los Alamos Primer, The (Serber)
low enriched uranium (LEU)
LTBT (Limited Test Ban Treaty)
Lugar, Richard
Mack, Andrew
Macmillan, Harold
Mahmood, Sultan Bashir-ud-Din
Majeed, Chaudiri Abdul
Mandela, Nelson
Manhattan Project
Mathews, Jessica T.
MAUD committee report
May, Michael
McFaul, Michael
McMahon, Brien
McNamara, Robert
megawatts (mw)
Meitner, Lise
Menon, Raja
Metallurgical Laboratory
metric tons
Mexico
Middle East. See also Israel
military establishment
Miller, Franklin
milling
MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles)
Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)
Molotov, V. M.
Moniz, Ernest
Moscow Treaty (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty) (SORT)
MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime)
Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRVs)
Musharraf, Pervez
MX missile
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs)
national security model, and economic drivers, and hydrogen bomb, Iran, Japan, overview, as proliferation barrier, and regional tensions, South Korea, West Germany
National Security Strategy of the United States of America
National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Nazarbayev, Nursultan
Nazi Germany
neoconservatism
Neptunium
Netherlands
neutrons
New Agenda initiative
new nuclear states. See proliferation
New Zealand
NIEs (National Intelligence Estimates)
9/11 Public Discourse Project
Nishimura, Shingo
Nitze, Paul
Nixon, Richard
Nixon Doctrine
Nobel Peace Prize
Nolan, James
nonproliferation regime: and anti-nuclear international standard, and ballistic missiles, Baruch Plan, George H. W. Bush administration policies, and Bush administration policies, Clinton administration policies, and compromise approach, criticisms of, emergence of, European Union efforts, Franck report, and fuel production controls, and new U.S. nuclear research, Nixon administration policies, Non-Proliferation Treaty, and nuclear arsenals, and nuclear technology exports, and nuclear terrorism, and proliferation, Reagan administration policies, and Soviet collapse, success of, Truman-Attlee-King proposal, and Ukraine, U.S. pressure supporting
nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and Bush administration policies
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): and anti-nuclear international standard, creation of, defined, success of, and Ukraine. See also nonproliferation regime
Norris, Robert S.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Korea: Bush administration policies, and economic drivers, and Japan, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, nuclear arsenal possession, and nuclear black market, as outlaw state, and proliferation
NPT. See Non-Proliferation Treaty
NPT Exporters Committee (Zannger Committee)
NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group)
NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative)
nuclear arms race, Atoms for Peace program, cultural responses, , and domestic political model, hydrogen bomb development, MIRVs, and national security model, 1950s escalation, and nuclear arsenals, and proliferation, Reagan administration policies, and Soviet collapse, and U.S. politics
nuclear arms reduction: and Atoms for Peace program, Baruch Plan, and compromise approach, current positive trends, and domestic political model, Kennedy administration proposals, New Agenda initiative, and nonproliferation regime, and nuclear risk, and proliferation, Reagan administration policies, success of
nuclear arsenals: accidental launch risk, countries possessing, current extent of, current positive trends, and 1950s escalation, and nonproliferation regime, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and nuclear arms race, and nuclear risk
nuclear black market
nuclear deterrence. See deterrence
nuclear energy. See also fuel production; nuclear technology exports
nuclear explosion consequences
nuclear fuel
nuclear fuel cycle
nuclear fuel-fabrication plant
nuclear optimists
nuclear pessimists
Nuclear Posture Review
nuclear reactors, defined
nuclear restraint. See proliferation incentives/barriers
nuclear risk, and Cold War, current elements overview, current positive trends, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and nonproliferation regime success, and nuclear arsenals, and nuclear terrorism, optimist vs. pessimist views of, and proliferation
Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
nuclear technology exports: Atoms for Peace program, Bush administration policies, and Iran, and nonproliferation regime, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, nuclear black market, and South Korea, and technology model, Truman-Attlee-King proposal. See also fuel production
nuclear terrorism, bomb design, and bomb materials, and Bush administration policies, future policy options, Illicit Trafficking Database, and nonproliferation regime, and Pakistan, proliferation impact on, and Russia
Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
nuclear umbrella. See U.S. nuclear guarantees
nuclear weapons, defined
nuclear weapons development: costs of, environmental costs, fission overview, fuel production overview, Soviet Union. See also U.S. nuclear weapons development
Nunn, Sam
Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction programs. See Cooperative Threat Reduction
Oak Ridge facility
Oelrich, Ivan
On the Beach (Shute)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
opportunity costs of nuclear weapons development
outlaw states
Pahlavi, Reza (Shah of Iran)
Pakistan: and Bush administration policies, and Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, and domestic political model, and economic drivers, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime, and nuclear black market, and nuclear terrorism, and regional tensions, and Saudi Arabia
Park Chung Hee
Peierls, Rudolph
peripheral states
Perkovich, George
Perle, Richard
plutonium: implosion bomb design, and nuclear terrorism. See also fuel production
plutonium-239
political leadership: and current positive trends, and domestic political model, and economic drivers
politics. See domestic political model
Pollack, Jonathan
Polmar, Norman
Poneman, Daniel
Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Declaration
Potter, William
Powell, Colin
Power, Thomas
power reactors
Prawitz, Jan
President’s Task Force on Preventing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Gilpatric Committee)
prestige model, and domestic political model, and economic drivers, and France, and India, and Libya, overview, as proliferation barrier, and Soviet Union, and U.S. policies
preventive war
Project Vinca
proliferation: and Bush administration policies, and fuel production, future policy options, and nonproliferation regime, and nonproliferation regime collapse risk, and nuclear arms race, and nuclear risk, and technology model. See also proliferation incentives/barriers
proliferation incentives/barriers, domestic political model, economic, multicausality, national security model, overview, prestige model, technology model
Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
protons
PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative)
public opinion: and domestic political model, and economic drivers, and Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, and nonproliferation regime
Putin, Vladimir
Qaddafi, Muammar
al Qaeda
Rabi, Isidor
Rabinowitch, Eugene
radioactivity
Reagan, Ronald
realism
regime change. See preventive war
regional tensions, and ballistic missiles, and domestic political model, and existing nuclear arsenals, future policy options, and national security model, and proliferation
Reiss, Mitchell
reprocessing
research reactors
Rice, Condoleezza
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rostow, Eugene
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusk, Dean
Russell, Bertrand
Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Russia: and accidental launch risk, and Bush administration policies, chemical weapons, Cooperative Threat Reduction, nuclear arsenal extent, and nuclear terrorism
Rutherford, Ernest
Sagan, Scott
Salim, Mamdouh Mahmud
SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I)
SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II)
sanctions
Sarabhai, Vikram
Sato, Eisaku
Saudi Arabia
Schell, Jonathan
Schlafly, Phyllis
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
Schmitt, Gary
Schwartz, Stephen
scientific establishment: and domestic political model, and technology model. See also U.S. nuclear weapons development
Scowcroft, Brent
Seaborg, Glenn
security model. See national security model
Segré, Emilio
Semipalatinsk-21 test
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Serber, Robert
Servia
Sharif, Nawaz
Shastri, Lal Bahadur
Sherwin, Martin
Shultz, George
Shute, Nevil
Singh, Jaswant
Slovenia
slugs
Sneider, Richard
solutions. See future policy options
SORT (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty) (Moscow Treaty)
South Africa
South Asian regional tensions
South Korea: fuel production, and national security model, and proliferation
Soviet Union: and Baruch Plan, collapse of, environmental costs, and Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, and International Atomic Energy Agency, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime emergence, nuclear weapons development, Potsdam Conference. See also Cold War; former Soviet Union; nuclear arms race
Spector, Leonard
speed of light
Spratt, John
Sputnik
Stalin, Joseph
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty)
START II (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II)
START III (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty III)
Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative)
Stennis, John
Stern, Jessica
Stimson, Henry
Strassman, Fritz
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I (SALT I)
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (SALT II)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty II (START II)
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty III (START III)
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) (Moscow Treaty)
strategic weapons
Sunohara, Tsuyoshi
Sutton, Willie
Sweden
Syria
Szilard, Leo
tactical weapons
Taiwan
Taliban
Tannenwald, Nina
technological determinism. See technology model
technology model, and hydrogen bomb development, overview, and proliferation, as proliferation barrier
Teller, Edward
Tenet, George
thermonuclear weapons. See also hydrogen bomb
Thompson, J. J.
Thurmond, Strom
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. See Non-Proliferation Treaty
Trident ballistic missile submarine
Trinity test (1945)
tritium
Truman, Harry S.: and Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, and hydrogen bomb development, nonproliferation plans, and Potsdam Conference
Truman-Attlee-King proposal
Turkey
Turner, Ted
Ukraine
UN inspections
United Kingdom: and Bush administration policies, fuel production, and Libya, and nuclear arms race, nuclear arsenal extent, and prestige model, and technology model
United Nations Conference for the Promotion of International Co-operation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy
United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)
United Nations Resolution 1540
Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (Carnegie Endowment)
UNMOVIC (United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission)
UN Resolution 1540
uranium: defined, fission overview. See also fuel production
uranium-235
uranium-238
Uranium Enrichment Company (URENCO)
uranium hexafluoride (UF6)
uranium oxide (U3O8)
URENCO (Uranium Enrichment Company)
U.S. nuclear guarantees: and domestic political model, and economic drivers, and national security model, and nonproliferation regime, and prestige model, and regional tensions
U.S. nuclear weapons development, bomb design, costs of, Einstein letter, environmental costs of, Franck report, Frisch-Peierls memorandum, hydrogen bomb, Los Alamos Primer, Manhattan Project, MAUD committee report, time needed
U.S. policies: biological weapons, China, compromise approach, Cooperative Threat Reduction, and domestic political model, and fuel production controls, and future policy options, Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombing, Iraq War, Kennedy administration, and liberal internationalism, and Middle East, and nonproliferation regime emergence, nonproliferation regime support pressure, nuclear arms reduction proposals, nuclear arsenal extent, Nuclear Posture Review, nuclear technology exports, and prestige model, Reagan administration, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine. See also Bush administration policies; Cold War; nuclear arsenals; U.S. nuclear guarantees; U.S. nuclear weapons development
Vietnam War
Vuono, Carl
Waltz, Kenneth
Way Out There in the Blue (FitzGerald)
weapons-grade material
Weida, William
Weinberger, Caspar
Weiss, Leonard
West Germany
Wier, Anthony
Wigner, Eugene
Wilson, Woodrow
Wittner, Lawrence
Wolf, John
Wolfowitz, Paul
yellowcake
Yeltsin, Boris
yield
Zangger, Claude
Zannger Committee (NPT Exporters Committee)
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
Zimmerman, Peter