America’s Achilles’ Heel (Falkenrath, Newman, Thayer)
anarchists
Anderson, Martin
anthrax
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)
Apollo Project
arms control. See also Biological Weapons Convention; Geneva Protocol; Nonproliferation Treaty
Arndt, H. W.
Aronson, Gerald
Artificial Intelligence
Asahara, Shoko
assassinations
asylum. See also United Nations
Atoms for Peace. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Attlee, Clement
Augustine, Norman
Augustine, Saint
Aum Shinrikyo
Australia
Babri Mosque
Baruch Plan
Basques
Batasuna Party
Battle of New Orleans
BCI. See brain-computer interface
Beirut Marine barracks attack
Belgium
Berners-Lee, Tim
Best of Intentions (Sokolski)
Betts, Richard
Bierstadt, Albert
Bikini Atoll
bin Laden, Osama
biological weapons; politically correct illusions and; use of
Biological Weapons Convention (BW Convention)
biotechnology. See also neuroscience
Blair, Bruce
Bolsheviks
Bosnia
brain: computers and; intelligence/size
brain science. See neuroscience
brain-computer interface (BCI)
Braudel, Fernand
Brave New World (Huxley)
Brennan, Donald
Brezhnev, Leonid
British Empire
Bruno, Giordano
Brzezinski, Zbigniew
Bull, Hedley
Burma, political repression in
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
BW Convention. See Biological Weapons Convention
Caliphate
Cambodia, under Pol Pot
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Catholicism
Cato
Central Asian republics
cesium
Ceuta
Chamberlain, Neville
Cheney, Dick
China; science/technology and; on superhuman intelligence
Christianity
Churchill, Winston; National Coalition Government of; on nuclear danger; on nuclear deterrence. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D.
The City of God (Augustine)
civil liberties
civilians, killing of
civilization
Clinton, Bill
cloning
Cold War
Cole, Thomas
Common Market
communications
computers: brain and; use of
Comte, Auguste
Congo, reactors in
Constantinople
Cuba
Cuban missile crisis
cults
cultural lag
cultural split; railroads and; widening divergence and; world of two souls and
culture
Czolgosz, Leon
Daly, Herman E.
Danzig, Richard
Dark Age
Darwin, Charles
death: deconstruction of; natural
Declaration of War
The Decline of the West (Spengler)
democracy
Deng Xiaoping
Denmark
Department of Homeland Security
“dirty bombs”
distance, shrinking of
doctor-assisted suicide
Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
Dror, Yehezkel
dual-power stratagem. See also Trotsky, Leon
dual use
Dulles, John Foster
dynamite
Dzerzhinski, Feliks
Eastern Europe
economic growth
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight D.. See also Atoms for Peace; Churchill, Winston
elderly
Ellul, Jacques
emotions
England
Enlightenment
Erikson, Erik
ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [Basque Country and Freedom])
ethics: medical; science and
Europe. See also Eastern Europe; Western Europe
European Union
euthanasia
Falkenrath, Richard A.
Faustian bargain
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Feith, Douglas J.
Fermi, Enrico
Fides et Ratio (encyclical)
First All-Russian Congress of Soviets
Flynn, Stephen
Foster, John
France
Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (Shelley)
Franklin, Benjamin
free market
free trade
French Revolution
Friedman, Thomas L.
Friedrich, Caspar David
Fukuyama, Francis
Fulbright, William
Galilei, Galileo
Garreau, Joel
Garwin, Richard
G-8 summit
Geneva Protocol (1925)
Geothe, Johann Wolfgang von
Germany; National Socialist Party of; Nazi; Weimar Republic and
Gingrich, Newt
globalization
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gray, Colin S.
Gray Dawn (Peterson)
Gray, John
Great Britain
Great Depression
Greeks
Greenbrier plan
Guatemala
Guillemin, Jeanne
Gulf War (1991)
The Hague
Haitian refugees
Hannaford, Peter
Harvard University’s Managing the Atom Project
Hawkins, Jeff
Henry, Ryan
Herman, Arthur
Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindus
Hiroshima
Hispanics
Hitler, Adolf; Reichstag Fire and; during Weimar Republic
Holland
Honduras
Huntington, Samuel P.
Hussein, Saddam
Huxley, Aldous
The Idea of Decline (Herman)
“ideology of hierarchism”
Ignatieff, Michael
immortality
India
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution
Insurrection Act
International Anarchist Congress (1881)
International Criminal Tribunal
Internet
IRA. See Irish Republican Army
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Islam
Islamic movements
Islamic societies
Islamists, militant
It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis)
Japan; nuclear weapons and; sarin attacks in
Jensen, Arthur R.
Jervis, Robert
Jews
Jihadists
John Paul II, Pope
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jordan
Judaism
Keats, John
Kennedy, John F.
Kerensky, Aleksandr
Khan, Abdul Qadeer
Khobar Towers attack
Kim Il Sung
Kissinger, Henry
Kurzweil, Ray
Lahn, Bruce T.
language
Laos
Laqueur, Walter
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Lebanon
Lederberg, Joshua
Lehman, John
; LeMay, Curtis
Lenin, Vladimir
The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror (Ignatieff)
Lewis, Sinclair
Libya
life extension/prolongation of
Light, Paul C.
“limits of physics”
Lindbergh, Charles
London bombings
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lugar, Richard
Macauley, Thomas B.
Machiavelli, Niccolò
MAD. See Mutual Assured Destruction
Madansky, Albert
Madrid train bombings
Malenkov, Georgii
Manhattan Project
Mantoux, Paul
Mao Ze-dong
Marlowe, Christopher
Marx, Karl
Marxism
McKinley, William
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Melilla asylum seekers
memory
Mexico
Michelangelo
Middle Ages
Middle East
military: affairs, revolution in; history lessons; technology and
Mill, John Stuart
Milosevic, Slobodan
Mokyr, Joel
Morocco
mortality: human; rates
MOX
multiculturalism
Munro, Donald J.
Murakami, Haruki
Musharrraf, Pervez
Muslims
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
Nagasaki
Nanos, Dr. G. Peter
Napoleon III
National Coalition Government
National Emergency Act (1974)
nationalism
nations
nation-states
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Netherlands
neurophysiology
neuroscience; control of human brain in
Newman, Robert D.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nixon, Richard M.
Nobel, Alfred
Nonproliferation Treaty
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. See NATO
North Korea
Norway
nuclear danger
nuclear reactors
nuclear technology
nuclear war plans
nuclear weapons; accidents/unauthorized use of; detection of; deterrence of; elimination/reduction of; global economy and; Japan and; mutual deterrence; non-use of; Soviet Union on; U.S. and; use of. See also Mutual Assured Destruction
Nunn, Sam
Nunn-Lugar program
Ode to a Nightingale (Keats)
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Ogburn, William F.
old age
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oregon, doctor-assisted suicide in
Ornstein, Norman J.
Orthodox Christians
Ottoman Empire
Pakistan
Palestine
PALs. See Permissive Action Links Pastoral Symphony (Beethoven)
Payne, Keith
Pearl Harbor attack
Peloponnesian war
Penrose, Roger
Perle, Richard
Permissive Action Links (PALs)
Peterson, Peter G.
“physical capital”
Pillsbury, Michael
plutonium
Pol Pot
Pontifical Academy of Science
population, world
Presidential Appointee Initiative
“Preventing and Defending Against Clandestine Nuclear Attack” (report)
Proliferation Security Initiative
Protestant Reformation
Protestantism
Putin, Vladimir
Al Qaeda
Qian, Wen-yuan
Quadrennial Defense Review
Radical Evolution (Garreau)
Raffarin, Jean-Pierre
railroads
RAND Corporation
Reagan, Ronald
Refugee Act (1980)
refugees
Reichstag Fire
religions; Asian; mortality beliefs among
Renaissance
retirement: age; delayed
Reynolds, David
The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth (Arndt)
Roman Catholics
Roman Empire
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rotblatt, Joseph
Roth, Philip
Rumsfeld, Donald
Russell, Bertrand
Russia; cults in; Czarist; Federal Security Service. See also Soviet Union
Russian Social Democratic Labor Party
al-Sadr, Muqtada
Saradzhyan, Simon
sarin
Saudi Arabia
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
science: ethics and; life science; technology and. See also computers; specific fields
Semtex explosives
Seneca
Shelley, Mary
Shiavo, Terri
Sinn Fein
Snow, C. P.
Soddy, Fredrick
Sokolski, Henry
Sophocles
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Goethe)
South Korea
Soviet Union; on nuclear weapons; on “Soviet man”. See also Russia
Spain
Sparkman, John
Spencer, Herbert
Spengler, Oswald
Stafford Act
Stalin, Joseph V.
“stationary state”
Stevens, Paul Schott
Stock, Gregory
Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)
Strauss, Lewis
Strontium 90
Sudan
Suharto, Raden
suicide, doctor-assisted
superhuman intelligence; China on; U.S. on
Suppy, Priorities, and Allocation Board
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Taliban regime
Taylor, Theodore B.
technology; China and science; detection; dual use of; military and; nuclear; science and
Tegnelia, Dr. James A.
telegraph
telephones
Teller, Edward
Temple Mount
territorial sovereignty
terrorism; biological; definitions of; jihadist /millitant Islamists; sabotage vs.; victims of. See also nuclear weapons; specific groups
Thayer, Bradley A.
Thucydides
Toynbee, Arnold
travel, long-distance
Trotsky, Leon. See also dual-power stratagem
Truman, Harry S.
Turkmenistan
Turney, Jon
“two souls,” world of
“tyranny of distance”
Ultimate Emergency Plan: factors of; measures
Unamuno, Miguel de
United Nations (UN); on arms control; Asylum Convention; Protocol to Asylum Convention
United States (U.S.); attacks on; child labor laws; continuity of; Declaration of War; defense of; democracy and; mobilization laws of; nuclear weapons and; presidency of; retirement age in; on superhuman intelligence; territorial sovereignty of; “two souls” of; war plans of
United World Federalists
uranium
Urex-Plus fuel
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
U.S. Atomic Energy Committee
U.S. Capitol
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Congress
U.S. Constitution
U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Marines
U.S. Pentagon; Defense Science Board; Defense Threat Reduction Agency
U.S. Senate
U.S. Strategic Air Command
USS Cole
U
zbekistan
Vandenberg, Arthur
Veblen, Thorstein
Vietnam, reactors in
Vietnam War
Viner, Jacob
Voltaire
Wagner, Richard
war plans. See also Ultimate Emergency Plan
We (Zamyatin)
weapons of mass destruction
Weimar Republic
Weinberger, Casper
West Berlin
West Virginia
Western Europe
“Western” intellectuals
“Western” society
Whitehead, Alfred North
Wilson, Woodrow
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
women, enfranchisement of
Wood, Lowell
World Bank
World government
World Trade Center
World War I
World War II; Allies
World Wide Web
The World Is Flat (Friedman)
Wyden, Peter
Yeltsin, Boris
Yugoslavia
Zamyatin, Yevgeniy
Zhu Di, Emperor
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