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A is for Atom, Carl Urbano, John Sutherland/General Electric Co, 1952.
Atomic Alert, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, 1951.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Ted Post, Twentieth Century Fox, 1970.
The Day After, Nicholas Meyer, ABC, 1983.
The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich, Twentieth Century Fox, 2004.
The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Val Guest, British Lion/Paramount, 1961.
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Robert Wise, Tewntieth Century Fox, 1951.
Dr Cyclops, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Paramount, 1940.
Dr No, Terence Young, Eon, 1962.
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.
Forbidden Planet, Fred M. Wilcox, MGM, 1956.
Frankenstein, James Whale, Universal, 1931.
Gojira [Godzilla], Ishirō Honda, Toho Co., 1954.
Invasion USA, Alfred E. Green, American Pictures Corp., 1952.
The Invisible Man, James Whale, Universal, 1933.
Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich, MGM, 1955.
Mad Max, George Miller, Mad Mad Pty, 1979.
Metropolis, Fritz Lang, UFA, 1926.
Omega Man, Boris Sagal, Walter Seltzer Productions, 1971.
On the Beach, Stanley Kramer, Lomitas, 1959.
The Satan Bug, John Sturges, Mirisch/Kappa, 1965.
Seven Days to Noon, Boulting Bros., London Films, 1950.
Shadow Makers, Roland Joffeá, Paramount, 1989.
Strategic Air Command, Anthony Mann, Paramount, 1955.
The Terminator, James Cameron, Cinema 84/Pacific Western Productions, 1984.
The Thing from Another World, Christian Nyby, Winchester Pictures/RKO, 1951.
Them!, Gordon Douglas, Warner Brothers, 1954.
Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies, London, 1936.
20 Million Miles to Earth, Nathan Juran, Columbia, 1957.
2001 – A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick, MGM, 1968.
War Games, John Badham, MGM/United Artists/Sherwood Productions, 1983.
War of the Worlds, Byron Haskins, George Pal Productions/Paramount, 1953.
The Whip Hand, William Cameron Menzies, RKO, 1951.
Index
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations
A is for Atom 369–70
A-bomb see atomic bomb
Academic Assistance Council (AAC) (UK) 212, 213
Adam, Ken 412, 414
Adams, Henry 55
Adamson, Lieutenant Colonel Keith F. 267
Advisory Committee on Uranium (USA) 267–8, 272
AEC 342, 357, 362, 367, 379, 409
aerial warfare 116, 197–9, 224–36, 239–40, 242–3, 249, 304, 317–20, 341
airships 116
Albarn, Damon 437
alchemy 33, 36, 50, 64–5, 72–3, 144, 183, 201, 219
Aldermaston Peace March 437, 439
Aldiss, Brian 429–30
Allison, Samuel K. 278
alpha radiation 63, 186, 187, 234
Alternate Joint Communications
Center (USA) 349
Alvarez, Luis 257, 357, 360
Amazing Stories 124, 167, 169, 231–4, 232, 293
American Civil War 102
ammonia 100
Anderson, Herbert 6, 9, 275, 314
Anderson, Poul, Thermonuclear Warfare 351
Apollo space project 283
Archimedes 123
arms race 323–4, 401, 407
Arnold, James R. 25, 27, 378–9
Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat, L’ 45
Arrowsmith, Pat 439
ASDIC 123
Astounding Science Fiction 291–2, 294, 296, 369
Atomic Age Opens, The 341
Atomic Alert 342
atomic bomb (A-bomb) xx, 281, 282, 256
design 270, 307–8
in drama and fiction 109, 112, 115, 127, 129, 196–200, 226–9, 231–4, 249–51, 292, 294–7, 345–9, 346
Germany 257–60, 265–6, 282–3, 291
atomic bomb –cont.
Hiroshima 6, 19, 34, 134, 270, 298, 307–8, 316, 328–32, 334, 368, 382, 384, 435
Nagasaki 34, 35, 222, 266, 291, 298, 308, 332–6, 335, 358, 384
origin of name 115, 197
press stories about 256, 287–91, 376, 384
scepticism about 256–7, 269
Soviet Union 341, 357
subcommittee to assess feasibility (UK) 270
United Kingdom 269–72, 342–3, 372–3
views of Manhattan Project scientists on the use of 321–2
see also Manhattan Project and Advisory Committee on Uranium
atomic energy 143–4, 202–3, 216, 234, 265, 276
in fiction and film 127, 130, 145, 202–4, 231, 291–4, 293, 300, 302, 345, 422
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 342, 357, 362, 367, 379, 409
atomic science, history of 36–51, 58–79
atomic structure, theories 37, 62–3, 76–7, 186
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (UK) 437
atoms 37, 62–3, 76–7, 132
splitting 143–6, 251, 254, 381, 388, 411
Atoms for Peace Award 420
Attlee, Clement 342
Auden, W.H. 152
Auld, Samuel 94, 102
Aum Shinrikyo 249, 438
Auschwitz 92, 245, 384
Back to the Future films 43
Bacon, Francis 98
Baker, Josephine 153
Baldwin, Stanley 198, 341
Ball, Hugo 131
Ballard, J.G. 384
balloons 116
Balzac, Honoré de, Quest for the Absolute 51
Bannister, Roger 377
Barr, Densil Neve, The Man with
Only One Head 385–6
Barr, Robert, ‘The Doom of
London’ 385
BASF 100
Baskerville, Chas 106
Batory 344
Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The 370
Becker, Herbert 186, 187
Beckett, Samuel 385
Beckmann, Max 152
Becquerel, Henri 58–9, 68, 70
Becquerel rays seeradioactivity
Bell, Thomas 415
Beneath the Planet of the Apes365, 384–5, 393
Benn, Tony 375, 437
Berlin 151–4, 177, 191–2, 208, 407
Berlin Wall 407
Bernstein, Jeremy 413–14
Berthelot, Marcelin 56
beryllium 186, 187, 231–4, 235, 296
beta radiation 63
Bethe, Hans 15, 16, 18, 180, 322, 356, 409
and CP-1 280–81
&nb
sp; and H-bomb 20, 23, 357, 359, 414
Manhattan Project 306, 307
refusal to work with Teller 360
Trinity test 309
University of Chicago Round Table broadcast 18–24
Beveridge, William 211
Bevin, Ernest 342
Big Science 20, 296, 355
Bihaly, Lazislas 172
Bikini Atoll tests 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8
biological weapons xix, 103, 226, 352–3, 382, 433
in fiction 106, 110–11, 200, 226–7, 239–41, 348, 351
Japan 244–7
United States 241–2, 353
BIR 120, 123
Birkenau 92
Blair, Bruce G. 433, 434, 435
Blue Danube 372
Bohr, Niels 180–82, 184–5, 235, 236, 316, 321
atomic model 186, 253
at Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft colloquium 155
at Los Alamos 305
and nuclear fission 254–5, 259, 289
scepticism about atomic bomb 256–7, 269
Bond, James 401
Borden, William, There Will Be No Time 362
Born, Max 94, 135, 138, 154, 209–10, 214, 320
Bosch, Carl 100
Bothe, Walther 181, 186, 187
Bovril 56
Boyle, Hal 339–40
Bradbury, Norris E. 309
Bragg, Sir William 124
Brailsford, H.N. 194
Bravo test 13, 127, 129, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374, 378, 386
breakdown of society 343, 348–9, 351, 373, 384, 411
Brecht, Bertolt 208
‘The Legend of the Dead Soldier’ 140
The Life of Galileo 140, 393
‘1940’ 224
The Threepenny Opera 152
breeder reactors 174–5, 285
Briggs, Lyman J. 267, 271
Board of Inventions and Research (UK) 120, 123–4
Brodie, Bernard 97, 412, 414
Bronowski, Jacob 218, 334
Brown, Frederic, ‘The Weapon’ 381
Brown, Harrison 18–24, 18, 374, 386, 400, 420
Browne, Maurice, and Robert Nichols, Wings Over Europe 228–9, 256, 302
Brownian motion 132
Bryant, Peter seeGeorge, Peter
Buchan, Alastair 403
Buchenwald 208–9
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 25–6, 352, 371, 375, 400, 412–13, 419–20, 421
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Coming Race 55–6, 107
Bund, Der 192, 194–5
‘bunker buster’ bomb 435
Burchett, Wilfred 331–2
