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Abdullah, Mohammad, 169
Abe, Shinzo, 232
Acree, Darrell, 74–78, 84, 93–100, 103–108, 115–117, 120–123, 127–129, 134
Activitron, 328–331
Adamski, George, 320
Adelberger, Eric G., 10
Ahmed, Nazir, 167–168
Air Force Plant 67 (AFP-67), 37–71
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) project, 47–52, 57, 65–66
Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE), 50
Allison, Samuel, 231
Alvarez, Louis, 90
Alves, Roberto dos Santos, 284
Analog: Science Fiction–Science Fact, 318
Anderson, Clinton P., 144, 163
“Anti-radiation” drugs, 288–289. See also Radiation poisoning
Apfelbeck, Hugo, 14
Apple, Fred, xiii
Arakatsu, Bunsaku, 223, 225
Argentina, 1, 10–35
Arnold, Kenneth, 321, 327
Arshad, Muhammad, 186
Asada, Tsunesaburo, 222
Aspect, Alain, 299
Astounding Science-Fiction, xxiii
Atlanta Constitution, 130, 206, 208
Atomic Bomb Mission, 206–208
Atomic bomb project, 190–229
Atomic bombs, xxv, 10, 13–17, 39, 44–48, 78–79, 90, 138–140, 165–187, 190–231, 264, 273, 288, 323–328
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), xii, 35–36, 49–50, 66–68, 140, 147–148, 159, 280–282
Atomic number, xxii
Atomic weight, xxi–xxii
Atoms for Peace program, 166–168, 193
Auer von Welsbach, Carl, xxviii
Aviation Week, 46, 69
B
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion, 134
Ballistic Missile Boost Intercept (BAMBI) plan, 40, 45
Balseiro, José Antonio, 26, 33
Báncora, Mario, 33
Beams, Jesse, 172
Becker, Al, 73
Beebe, Gary, 104, 120–121, 127–129, 134
Behind the Flying Saucers, 322
Beninson, Captain, 33
Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellshaft, 92
Berlitz, Charles, 322
Bethe, Hans, 4, 5, 216, 311
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 165, 171–172, 175–177
Big Bang theory, 5, 134
Billingham, John, 293
Bin Laden, Osama, 187
Black Cloud, The, 291
Blondlot, Nicolas, xxv
Blondlot, Prosper-René, xxiv–xxxi
Bohne, Gerhard, 21
Bohr, Niels, 89, 193, 211, 299
Bomber planes, 47–51, 69–71, 70
Bond, Alan, 313
Bormann, Martin, 200
Boron blocks, 112, 114–115, 122
Bothe, Walther, 17
Boyd, Bob, 67
Boyer, Keith, 146
Boys’ Life, 280
Brandt, Karl, 17
Brazel, Mac, 321
Brown, Sherley, 319–320
Bubble chamber, 90
Burnell, Jocelyn Bell, 293
Bush, George Herbert Walker, 45
Business Week, 127
Bussard, Robert W., 139–140, 310–312
Bussard Interstellar Ramjet, 311–312
Bussolini, Juan, 33
Butt, Noor Muhammad, 190
C
Campbell, John W., Jr., xxiii–xxiv
Card, Orson Scott, 302
Carter, James E., 94, 177
Centrifuge, Kamenev, 178
Centrifuge, Zippe-type, 172, 178, 182
Centrifuge plans, 224–226, 227
Centrifuge plant, 178–179, 182–183, 187–188
Chaudhry, Rafi Muhammad, 167
Chernobyl disaster, 79, 164, 265
CHIC-1, 169
CHIC-4, 165–189
Chicago Sun, 321
Chinese missile, 165–189
Chlorophyll experiments, xxi–xxii
Classical mechanics, 296–297
Cleator, Philip E., 138, 312
Cleaver, A. V., 138, 140
Clinton, Bill, 186
Close, Frank, 102, 134
Clusius, Klaus, 214
Cockcroft, John, 32, 35
Cockcroft-Walton accelerator, 103, 223, 330
Cold Fusion: The Making of a Scientific Controversy, 134
Cold Fusion: The Scientific Fiasco of the Century, 134
Cold-fusion concept, 72–100, 102–134
Cold-fusion effect, 101, 107, 124–129
Cold-fusion experiments, 79–101, 109–119, 116, 119, 120–134, 329–330. See also Nuclear reactor experiments
Cold-fusion phenomena, 132–134
Cold-fusion reactors, 72–103, 113, 125, 331–334, 332. See also Nuclear reactors
Compton, Arthur, xxiii, 231
Compton, Karl T., 206
Compton Effect, xxiii
Conant, James, 231
Connors, George Washington, ix
Cooke, James, xix
Cotten, Henry, 68
Cowan, Clyde, 109
Cox, David, xiv, xvi–xvii
Crawford, Marjory Wood, 117
Criminal acts, 230–255
Critical Experiment Facility (CEF) reactor, 61–63
Critical mass, 173, 176, 180–184, 186, 216, 223, 268
Crocker, Kerry Andrus, 251–255
Crocker, Kirk, 251–255
Crockett, Davy, 184
Cronin, Thomas, 253
Crystal lattice, 42, 80–82, 86–88, 114, 263
Curie, Marie, 239, 267
Curie, Pierre, 239
Cyclotron, 16, 193–196, 194, 208–212, 219–220, 229, 266–269
D
Daghlian, Harry, 277–278
Davy, Humphrey, 13
Dawson Forest, 37, 52–72, 329
Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 319
Death beam, 233–234
Dehlinger, Peter, 92
Denny, Hugh, 104
Design Study for a System of Detecting Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life, A, 294
Deuterium (D), 3–4, 4
Deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion, 4, 10, 14, 33–34, 75–77, 85, 91–92, 95–96, 123, 132
Deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion, 3–4, 4, 9–10, 14, 36, 41, 90–91, 313–314, 330–331
Dewoitine, Émile, 20
Dianetics, xxiii
Dirty bombs, 262–289
Dönitz, Karl, 203–204
Donovan, “Wild Bill,” 73
Dosimeters, 264
Down conversion, 299–300
Draganovic, Krunoslav, 21
Duddell, William Du Bois, 29
E
Eberhardt, Otto, 14–15
Eddington, Arthur, 5
Edgerton, Harold, xxv
Ehman, Jerry R., 294
Ehrenberg, Wolfgang, 23, 26, 33
Einstein, Albert, 193, 223, 292, 299, 305
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 40, 145, 166, 271, 273
Electrical Review, 233
Electrolysis experiments, 75–77, 80–107, 111–121, 127, 132, 192
Electromagnetic radiation, 41–44, 233, 293–297
Ellison, Clarence H. “Judge,” 323, 326–334
Eloptic energy, xxi, xxiv, xxx
Eloptic Medical Analyzer, xxiii
Ender’s Game, 302
Engineering and Mining Journal, The, 280
English, James W., ix
En-Lai, Chou, 172
Enola Gay, 226, 228
Entangled photons, 298–310, 308
Esau, R. Abraham, 15–16
Esnault-Pelterie, Robert, 138
Excalibur laser, 44
Exoplanets, 291
Expendable radio sonobuoy (ERSB), 325–327
Extraterrestrial civilizations, 290–317
Extraterrestrial communications, 293–294, 298–310, 308, 316–317
Exxon Valdez disaster, 84–85
F
Farrell, Thomas F., 205–206, 228
Fat Man bomb, 169, 175, 180, 191, 221
Fatherland, 318
Fehler, Johann-Heinrich, 203
Felsinger, Hans, 11
Fermi, Enrico, 20, 32, 83, 212, 230–231, 290–291
Ferreira, Devair Alves, 284
Feynman, Richard, 219
F-go project, 223–226
Fleischmann, Martin, 79–85, 89, 92–93, 96, 99–107, 113–117, 120–129, 133
Flight of the Hawkmen, The, 233
Fluorescence, xxviii
Flying saucers, 318–322
Flying Saucers Farewell, 320
Flying Saucers Have Landed, 320
Forbidden Planet, 319
Foucault, Léon, xxv
Fracking, 39
Frail, Dale, 291
Franck, James, 231
Frank, Frederick Charles, 89
Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Carl, 5
Frisch, Otto, 83
Froman, Darol, 142
Fürth, Reinhold, 11
Fusion reactors. See also Nuclear fusion
cold-fusion reactors, 72–103, 113, 125, 331–334, 332
confinement-fusion reactor, 313, 315
exhibit of, 6–7, 36
fission process and, 2–3
Oliphant reactor, 3, 9–10
plasma-shock reactor, 13–18, 22, 29
Richter reactor, 23, 29–32, 30, 35–39
tokomak reactor, 3
Z-pinch reactor, 7–8, 16, 35, 77
Fusion Technology, 331, 334
G
Gaddafi, Muammar, 173, 188
Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam, 188
Gagarin, Yuri, 150, 237
Galaxies, 290–317
Gamba, Otto, 33
Gamma rays, xvii, xxv, xxix, 5, 14, 29, 34
Gamma spectrometer, 131, 260, 264–265, 287. See also Spectrometers
Gamow, George, 5–6, 20, 32
Gandhi, Indira, 175
Gas diffusion column, 213, 213–214
Gaviola, Enrique, 20
Gebauer, Leo A., 322
Geiger counter, 4, 29, 97–100, 108–112, 122, 249–251, 259–261, 265–283, 287
Geiger Counter Magazine, 280
Genzo, Shoji, 204
Georgia Journal, 53
Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory (GNAL), xiii, xv–xvi, 52–59, 56, 58, 62–67, 112, 151–152
Georgia Nuclear Laboratory (GNL), 67–68, 151–152
Georgia Tech, xii, xv, 68
Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), 73–78, 95–97, 103–109, 124–134, 168, 302, 323, 328–334
Georgia Tech Research Reactor, xiv, xvii, 68, 108, 168
German mines, 272–273
Ghafoor, Abdul, 166–167
Glenn, John, 142, 152
Goddard, Robert H., 136–137
Goiânia Incident, 284–285, 288
Gold, Thomas, 293
Gold-finder instrument, xix–xx
Gonzalez, Enrique, 23
Gorbachev, Mikhail S., 46
Grace, Donald J., 125–126, 130
Great Artiste, The, 227
Grissom, Gus, 150
Groth, Wilhelm, 172
Groves, Leslie R., 205, 210, 217, 228, 267, 271
Gusev, I. A., 263
H
Hackett, F. E., xxviii
Hagelstein, Peter L., 43–44, 113–114, 133
Hahn, Otto, 2, 83, 209
Hamilton, Joseph, 231
Harris, Robert, 318
Harteck, Paul, 13, 172
Heinlein, Robert, 318
Heisenberg, Werner, 20, 32, 161
Heisenberg Curse, 161
Helium-3 (He-3), 38, 91–92, 95–96, 105, 108, 124, 131, 313–315
Helium-4 (He-4), 3–6, 4, 6, 26, 91, 103
Hellman, Heriberto, 29–30
Hemmerly, Robert, 277
Hewish, Antony, 293
Hieronymus, Thomas Galen, xxi–xxiv, 309
Hieronymus Effect, xx–xxiv, xxx
Hieronymus Machine, xxii–xxiv
Hines, Marion, 320
Hino, Juichi, 222
Hiroshima bombing, 78, 180, 203, 205, 207, 216, 226–228, 232, 264, 267
Hirschfield, Wolfgang, 204
Hitler, Adolf, 17, 19, 44, 87, 200
Hoffmann, Frederic de, 138, 139
Hooker, J. S., xxviii
Houdini, Harry, x–xii
Howie, Joe, 73
Hoyle, Fred, 291, 293
Hubbard, L. Ron, xxiii
Huizenga, John R., 134
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, 78–79
Hurt, Mark, 302
Hydrogen bombs, 5, 15, 38–44, 92, 116, 139–145, 236, 315
Hydrogen fusion, 1–10, 26–27, 31, 35, 38, 83, 88–90, 107, 311, 315
Hydrogen plasma, 7–9
Hydrophones, 324–328
Hypercritical mass, 173, 181–184, 216, 223
I
Ikejima, Toshio, 220
Implosion bomb, 169, 173, 179–180, 184, 189
Inertia, xxv
Inertial confinement, 313–316
Inertial-fusion experiments, 313–316
Inside the Space Ships, 320
Interplanetary travel, 135–139, 236–237, 315–317
Interstellar probes, 313–316
Iran, 13, 35, 184–189
Ishikawa, Fusao, 215
Ishiwatari, Takehiko, 214
Ito, Yoji, 222
J
Jacobs, Eastman, 3
Jaffke, Heinz, 23, 26, 30–31
Jamali, Zafarullah, 187
Jansky, Karl, 292
Japan atomic bomb project, 190–229
Jensen, Johannes, 13
Jet fighters, 18, 20, 47–51, 145, 204
Jiming, Guy, 258
Johnson, Lyndon B., 159, 161, 163
Joliot-Curie, Jean Frédéric, 17, 267
Jones, Herman, 320
Jones, Steven E., 91–94, 105–106
Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 138
K
Kanda, Eizo, 215
Kantrowitz, Arthur “Arky,” 3
Kaplun, Vladimir, 255–256
Karabut, A. B., 331
Karam, Ratib A., 108, 111, 128
Kawashima, Toranosuke, 217
Keener’s Manual, The, 262
Keller, K. T., 175
Kennedy, John F., 66, 155
Kerr, John, xxv
Kerr, Robert S., 163
Kerr cell, xxiv–xxv
Khan, Abdul Qadeer (A. Q.), 166–171, 175–178, 184–188
Khan, Agha Mohammad Yahya, 171
Khan, Munir Ahmad, 172–173, 175
Kigoshi, Kunihiko, 214
Kikuchi, Seishi, 222
Kimura, Toshikazu, 226
Kirkland, Bob, xiii
Kitagawa, Commander, 225
KIWI-1, 144, 146
KIWI-A3, 149
KIWI-B4, 153–157
KIWI-C, 147–148, 152
Klein, Oskar, 211
Klein, Rolf-Dieter, 260–261
Kobayashi, Minoru, 225, 226
Konopinski, Emil, 290
Kontz, A. L., ix
Kontz, E. C., ix
Kucherov, Y. R., 331, 332, 334
Kwiat, Paul, 299, 302
L
Land, Edwin H., 298
Land of Enchantment, 322
Larmor, Joseph, 27–29, 33
Laser beam, 40–46, 113, 133, 236, 301, 310, 316
Lawrence, Ernest O., 193, 195–196
Le Guin, Ursula K., 302
LeMay, Curtis “Bombs Away,” 221, 230, 232–233
Lewis, Gilbert N., 13
Light, speed of, xxv, 62, 292, 295–305, 309, 313–316
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (Laser), 41. See also Laser beam
Light spectrum, 40–43, 238, 293, 300
Lithium-hydrogen fusion, 26–27. See also Hydrogen fusion
Little Boy bomb, 179–183, 191, 196, 216, 221, 226–227, 264
Litvinenko, Alexander, 250, 283
Livesay, Billy, 94–98, 103, 115, 124–127, 131–134
Loft, Mark John, 309
M
Ma, Maryann Wenli, 259–260
Maddox, Lester G., xii
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 27
Mahaffey, James, ix, xv, xvi
Mahmood, Bashiruddin, 176, 187
Majeed, Abdul, 187
Manhattan Project, 117, 140, 174, 198, 205, 211, 216, 228, 231, 267–273, 311
Mars expedition, 103, 135–164
Marshall, George C., 231
Mass spectrometer, xxii, 16, 34, 172, 218. See also Spectrometers
Matthews, Harry Grindell, 234
Matthies, Pedro, 20
Maxwell, James Clerk, xxv
McDowell, Dean, xv, 111–113
McNamara, Robert S., 66
Meese, Edwin, 41
Meitner, Lise, 2, 83
Mesmer, Franz, xxxii
Miller, Leslie, xxviii
Milner, Yuri, 315
Mitsui, Matao, 226–228
Monti, Carlos, 24
Moon, John, xiv–xvii
Moon landing, 154–155, 162
Moore, William, 322
Morrison, Sidney, 251
Muonic fusion, 89–91
Musharraf, Pervez, 188
N
Nagaoka, Hantaro, 222
Nagasaki bombing, 180, 192, 205, 232
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 142, 147, 150–152, 155, 158, 162–165, 292–294, 314
Nature, xxxi, 87, 92, 105, 115, 212
Necessary Evil, 227
Neely, Frank H., xii, 73
Nelson, Richard, 228
NERVA, 142, 152, 159–164
NERVA I, 161–162
NERVA II, 161–162
Neutron blast, 59, 114
Neutron bombardment, 2, 15, 83, 221–223
Neutron burst, 114, 183
Neutron detector, 97–100, 108, 111–112, 117, 120, 129–131, 331
Neutron generator, 3–4, 36, 77, 156, 168, 328
Neutron spectrometer, 105. See also Spectrometers
Neutron speed, 83–84, 98, 112, 196, 212, 334
New York Times, 234
Newsweek, 126
Newton, Isaac, 296
Newton, Silas M., 322
Newtonian mechanics, xxv, 296
Nininger, Robert D., 206
Nishina, Yoshio, 211, 212, 216–222, 229
Nist, Cecil W., 208
Nitta, Admiral, 226
Nixon, Richard, 162
Noguchi, Shitagau (Jun), 191–192
North Korea, 185–187, 192, 228–229
Nourse, Alan E., 318
N-rays, xxiv–xxxiii
NRX, 157–161, 158
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Vulnerability Analysis, 283
Nuclear Aircraft Research Facility (NARF), 52
Nuclear decay, 88, 137–138
Nuclear disintegration, 138, 230–261
Nuclear fission, 1–2, 4, 16, 78–84, 135–141, 161–162, 197–198, 209–212, 268, 296–297, 310
Nuclear fusion, 23, 26, 79–83, 105, 310–311. See also Fusion reactors
Nuclear physics, xxv, xxxii–xxxiii, 11, 15–17, 20, 35–38
Nuclear reactor experiments, xiii–xiv, 137–140, 231, 264, 268–269. See also Cold-fusion experiments
Nuclear reactors, 50–51, 61, 66–70, 109–113, 117, 144–145, 155–157, 170, 179, 183, 202, 210–212, 223, 291. See also Cold-fusion reactors
Nuclear rockets, 67–69, 136–148, 149, 150–159, 151, 153, 158, 160–165
Nuclear submarine, xiv, 111–112
Nuclear-powered spaceflight, 135–136
O
Oberbeil, Wilhelm, 200
Oliphant, Mark, 2–4, 9, 13–14
Oliver, Bernard M., 293
Omrcanin, Ivo, 21
Operation Crossroads, 279
Operation Peppermint, 271–274
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 211, 230–231
Oshima, Hiroshi, 198–199, 217
Outer space, 290–317
P
Palladium, 77, 81–101, 103–134, 328–334
Palmer, Paul, 91, 105
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, 188
Paneth, Friedrich “Fritz,” 86–88
Parametric down conversion, 299–300
Paris, Demetrius, 124, 130
Paris Match, 126
Parsons, William S. “Deak,” 228
Particle accelerator, 13–14, 23, 223, 240, 261, 330
Pash, Boris, 273
Pasolli, Captain, 24
Pathoclast, xxiii
Payne, Arnold, 320
Pearl Harbor attack, 125, 197–198, 211–212, 232
Peat, F. David, 134
Pellegrini, Mark, 74–76, 100
Pereira, Wagner Mota, 284
Perón, Eva “Evita” Duarte, 19, 24–25, 35
Perón, Juan Domingo, 19–26, 31–35, 38, 200
Personal computers, 102–103
Peter the Great, 239
Peters, Kurt, 86–88
Peterson, Arthur V., 271
Pfaff, Karl, 204
Phoebus 1A, 160–161
Phoebus 1B, 161
Phoebus 2, 153, 160
Phoebus 2A, 161–162
Phoebus 2B, 162
Photons, entangled, 298–310, 308
Physical Review, 193, 210, 212, 217
Physicalische Zeitschrift, xxxi
Planck, Max, 87, 300
Planetary exploration, 135–139, 163, 236–237, 313, 317–318
Plasma, xxv, 3, 7–9
Plasma shock waves, 13–18, 22, 29
Plutonium, 1, 47, 66, 109–110, 169–180
Plutonium bomb, 179–180, 189, 202, 221
Podolsky, Boris, 299
Polarization
digital polarization, 304
elliptical polarization, xxvii
horizontal polarization, 297, 301, 303, 306–308
of photons, 298–310
quantum polarization, 303–308
state of, 297, 299–308
vertical polarization, 297, 301, 303–304, 306–308
of X-rays, xxvi–xxvii
Ponomarev, Leonid I., 90
Pons, B. Stanley, 79–85, 89, 92–93, 96, 99–107, 113–117, 120–129, 132–133, 330
Pons, Joey, 100
Prieto, Fernando Manuel, 24
Project 706, 175–177
Project Breakthrough Starshot, 315–317
Project Cyclops, 294–295
Project Daedalus, 313–315
Project Dinah, 272
Project Icarus, 314
Project Longshot, 314–315
Project Mamie, 273
Project Mogul, 323–328
Project NI, 213, 217–223, 229
Project Pluto, 144–146
Project Rover, 144, 147–153, 151, 153, 164
Project Timberwind, 164
Prospecting for Uranium, 280
Proton-proton fusion, 9–10, 311
Psionics, xxiii–xxiv
Q
Quantum mechanics, xxv, xxxii–xxxiii, 11, 79, 114, 295–310
Quantum polarization, 303–308
Quantum teleportation, 310
R
Radiation Effects Facility (REF) reactor, 59–65, 60, 64, 67
Radiation poisoning, 65, 246–262, 274–278, 284–287
Radiation spectrum, xxii, xxix
Radiation treatments, 239–240, 253
Radiation-source thefts, 233, 241, 244–248, 286
Radio astronomy, 292–293
Radio signals, 292–293
Radio waves, xxix
Radioactive decay, 2, 87, 276
Radioactive dust, 68, 284–287
Radioactive sources, 4, 239–261, 275–277, 286
Radioprotectant, 288–289
Radio-wave measurements, xxv
Ray guns, 194, 233–239, 281, 329
Rayburn, Sam, 163
Reagan, Ronald, 38–44
Reichenbach, Baron von, xxxii
Reines, Fred, 109
Relativity, xxxii–xxxiii, 292, 299, 309
Review Scientifique, xxxi
Richter, Ilse, 21, 24
Richter, Monica, 25
Richter, Ronald W., 1, 10–39, 42, 47, 76, 194
Rider, Dwight R., 208
Rocannon’s World, 302
Rockets, 67–69, 136–148, 149, 150–159, 151, 153, 158, 160–165
Rodong-1 missile, 185
Roentgen rays, xxvii, xxix
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 197
Rosen, Nathan, 299
Roswell Daily Record, 321
Roswell Incident, 321–322, 327–328
Roswell Incident, The, 322
Rover Boys, 142–144, 150, 162, 310
Rutherford, Ernest, 13, 167, 193, 211, 222, 223
S
Sagan, Carl, 8
Sagane, Ryokichi, 222
Sakata, Shoichi, 226
Sakharov, Andrei, 90
Santana, Jesse, 243–244
Savvatimova, I. B., 331
Schirra, Wally, 154
Schrödinger, Erwin, 295
Schwinger, Julian, 219
Science fiction, xxiii, xxix, 38, 136, 233–234, 291, 302, 318
Scientific American, 4
Scott, Edwin R., 234
Scud missile, 185
Scully, Frank, 322
Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), 294–295, 310
Selidovkin, G. D., 263
Senior Technology Guidance Council (STGC), 103–104
Serrano Súñer, Ramón, 199
Sharif, Mian Muhammad Nawaz, 186
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 169
Shepard, Alan, 150
Shepard, Leslie R., 138, 140
Shimizu, Sakae, 224, 226
Shock waves, 13–16, 22, 78, 166, 173–174, 264, 324, 328
Siebrecht, August, 21
Sitte, Kurt, 11
Smartphones, 191, 260–261, 287
Smith, Harrie, 254
Snell, David, 206, 208
Solar hydrogen fusion, 4, 7–10. See also Hydrogen fusion
Solar temperature, 8–10
Solid-fuel rockets, 136–137
Sonobuoys, 324–328
Sound, speed of, 13, 40, 69, 324
Sound channels, 324, 327
Sound Fixing and Ranging (SOFAR), 324
Space exploration, 135–139, 147, 163, 236–237, 313, 317–318
Space shuttles, 141–142, 154, 163, 237
Space travel, 135–139, 236–237
Spauschus, Hans, 103, 123
Specific impulse (SI), 141, 156–164, 255
Spectrometers, xxii, 16, 34, 105, 131, 172, 218, 260–265, 287
Speed of light, xxv, 62, 292, 295–305, 309, 313–316
Speed of neutrons, 83–84, 98, 112, 196, 212, 216, 334
Speed of sound, 13, 40, 69, 324
Spencer, Percy L., 235
Spherical shock waves, 173–174
Spitzer, Lyman, 35
Star probes, 313–316
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, 233
“Star Wars” program, 38, 42–47
Stars, 290–317
Steenbeck, Max, 172
Steenblik, Rick, 76–79, 84, 93–100, 103–106, 115–117, 120–124, 127–134, 295, 302–310, 317
Steinmetz, Charles, 234
Stelson, Thomas E., 124–125
Stemm, Gregory, xix
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, 38, 42–47, 113, 164, 236
Stratemeyer, Edward, 142
Straus, Hal, 130
Subcritical mass, 173, 180–186
Sulakvelidze, Victor Samsonovich, 238
Super Excalibur laser, 44
Superluminal communication, 295, 302, 309–310
Suzuki, Tatsusaburo, 208–211, 220
T
Tajima, Eizo, 210
Takeda, Eiichi, 219
Taketani, Mitsuo, 219
Takeuchi, Masa, 216, 219
Tamaki, Hidehiko, 216
Tammiku incident, 246–250, 262
Tandberg, John, 88–89
Tank, Kurt Waldemar, 17–20, 23, 35
Taubes, Gary, 134
TAXI project, 302
Taylor, Jerry, 97–98
Taylor, Lauriston Sale, 266, 267
Technological changes, 102–134
Teleforce, 233–236
Teleportation, 310
Teller, Edward, 1, 10, 37–46, 113, 126, 139–140, 231, 290
Terrorism with Ionizing Radiation General Guidance, 286
Tesla, Nikola, 233–235
Theory of relativity, xxxii–xxxiii, 292, 299, 309
Thermal diffusion column, 213–214, 217–218
Thermo Luminescent Dosimeter (TLD), 264
Thermoluminescence, 264
Thermonuclear weapons, 2, 22, 31, 39, 45, 50, 76, 115, 139, 142, 185–186
Three Mile Island meltdown, 79
Tibbets, Paul, 226
Tojo, Hideki, 216
Tokomak reactor, 3
Tombaugh, Clyde, 320
Tomonaga, Hideo, 204
Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro, 219
Too Hot to Handle: The Race for Cold Fusion, 102, 134
Toon, John D., 125, 129, 131
Topfmine, 267–268, 269
Tritium (T), 3–4, 4. See also Deuterium-tritium fusion
Truman, Harry S., 163
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin E., 135
U
Ulam, Stanislaw Marcin, 138–139
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), 318–322
Universe, 290–317
Uranium, xvii, 1–2, 16, 27, 48–50, 83–92, 112–113
Uranium bomb, 175–184, 216, 221
U.S. News & World Report, 127
Usmani, Ishrat Hussain, 168, 170, 172
USS Nautilus, xiv, 111–112
USS Sutton, 204
V
Valdez, Gallardo, 20
Van de Graaff accelerator, 3, 4, 16, 23
Van Gogh, Vincent, 74
Velasco, Ángel Alcázar de, 199–202
Victoreen, John Austin, 265–267, 279, 282
Villard, Paul, xxv
Visible light spectrum, 40–43, 238, 293, 300
Volcanic ash, 91–92, 105
Volta, Alessandro, xxi
Voltmeter, xxi
Von Ardenne, Manfred, 12, 16, 23, 194
Von Braun, Werner, 67, 152, 154
Von Neumann, John, 140
W
Wakabayashi, Tsetusuo, 206, 208
Wall Street Journal, 157
War crimes, 230–237
War of the Worlds, The, 136
Waters, Edward, 320
Weapons System 125A (WS-125A), 51–52, 66
Weather balloons, 321–328
Weinstein, John, 259–260
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von, 5
Wells, H. G., 136
Welsbach, Carl Auer von, xxviii
Williams, Orren, xiv
Wilner, Torsten, 88
Wilson, Tom, 320
Winterberg, Friedwardt, 313–314
Wolszczan, Alexander, 291
Wood, Nancy, 117–118, 121, 123, 127, 331
Wood, Robert W., xxviii–xxxii
Wood Effect, xxxii
X
X-ray laser, xxv–xxix, 40–46, 113, 133, 236, 240
Y
Yasuda, Takeo, 209, 216
Yeltsin, Boris, 285
Yokoyama, Sumi, 215
York, Herbert, 142, 290
Yukawa, Hideki, 225
Z
Zeilinger, Anton, 310
Zeppelin, 85–86
Zheng, Bill Wenling, 259–260
Zia-ul-Haq, General, 177, 179
Zippe, Gernot, 172
Z-pinch reactor, 7–8, 16, 35, 77
Zuckerberg, Mark, 315