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  INDEX

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustration captions.

  AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

  acetone

  Acton, Lord

  Alaska

  Alvarez, Luis

  Argentina

  Argus

  Artsimovich, Lev

  astronomy

  Atkinson, Robert

  atmospheric pressure

  atom bomb, see fission bomb

  Atomic Energy Commission, U.S. (AEC)n n n

  Oppenheimer and

  Strauss as head of

  atoms

  excitation of

  stability of

  Avogadro, Amedeo

  Bangerter, Norman

  Baruch, Bernard

  BBC

  Begley, Sharon

  Bethe, Hans

  sun’s energy studied by

  Bhabha, Homi J.

  big bang

  BioCharger

  Bishop, Jerry

  Blackett, Patrick

  Blondlot, René

  Bockris, John

  Boltzmann, Ludwig

  Born, Max

  Bradbury, Norris

  Britain

  Zero-Energy Thermonuclear Assembly in

  British Atomic Energy Authority (BAEA)

  Brophy, James

  Brown, Harold

  bubble chamber

  bubble fusion

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

  bullets, variable-speed

  Bush, George W.

  Bussard, Robert

  Butt, Adam

  californium-

  Campbell, Michael

  Canada

  carbon

  Carter, Jimmy

  cathode rays

  cavitation

  cesium oxide

  Chadwick, James

  chain reaction

  China

  Chirac, Jacques

  Clinton, Bill

  Cockcroft, John

  cold fusion

  bubble fusion compared with

  control experiments lacking in

  muon-catalyzed

  Colgate, Stirling

  Columbus machines

  Communism

  Oppenheimer and

  Teller and

  Conference on Future Energy (CoFE)

  conservation of momentumn

  Coontz, Robert

  Crum, Lawrence

  Curie, Marie

  Curie, Pierre

  Dalton, John

  DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)nn

  Darwin, Charles

  Day After Trinity, The

  Democritus

  deuterium

  in bubble fusion

  in cold fusion

  in Ditmire device

  in Farnsworth device

  in laser fusion

  in muon-catalyzed fusion

  in Putterman device

  in Scylla

  in the sun

  deuterium-deuterium reactions

  deuterium-tritium reactions

  disruption

  Ditmire, Todd

  Dobrynin, Anatoly

  Doolittle, James

  Dulles, John Foster

  Dyson, Freeman

  E = mc2

  Economist

  Egypt

  h Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, The (Marx)

  Einstein, Albert E = mc equation of

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  electromagnetism

  see also magnetic fusion

  electrons

  in laser fusion

  muons and

  in plasma

  radiation and

  television and

  electron volts

  elements

  Emmett, John

  energy

  E = mc2 equation and

  fission as best choice for

  of sun

  Energy, Department ofn

  National Nuclear Security Administration

  Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA)n

  Everett, Cornelius

  evolution

  Executive Intelligence Reviewn

  Exodus

  Farnsworth, Philo

  Fermi, Enriconn

  Feynman, Richard

  fission

  as best choice for nuclear energy

  chain reaction in

  radioactive waste from

  uranium and

  and valley of iron

  fission bomb (atom bomb)

  chain reaction in

  first test ofn

  in fusion bomb

  Manhattan Project and n

  Fleischmann, Martin

  Francen

  International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and

  Fuchs, Klausn

  fusion:

  bubble

  as clean energy

  cold, see cold fusion

  defined

  deuterium-deuterium

  fusion (continued)

  deuterium-tritium

  difficulty of

  expense of

  fuel for

  inertial confinement ; see also laser fusion

  laser, see laser fusion

  magnetic, see magnetic fusion

  muon-catalyzed

  pyroelectricnn

  secrets in research on

  strong force in

  in sun

  tabletop devices for, see tabletop fusion

  and valley of iron

  fusion bomb (superbomb; hydrogen bomb)

  Alarm Clock design for

  Castle Bravo test of

  Castle Koon test ofn

  Castle Romeo test of

  containment of ; see also magnetic fusion

  detonation of

  diminishing returns of

  fission device in

  Greenhouse tests of

  Ivy Mike

  Limited Test Ban Treaty and

  major obstacle in creation of

  moratoriums on

  natural gas tests of

  Nougat tests of

  in Operation Storax

  Plumbbob Rainier test of

  in Program No.

  in Project Chariot

  in Project Plowshare n

  radioactive fallout from

  in Soviet Union n

  Fusion Energy Foundationn

  Gai, Moshe

  gamma rays

  Gamow, George

  Garwin, Richard

  gas, natural

  gasses

  General Advisory Committee (GAC)

  Germany

  International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and

  Gilliland, Gil

  global warming

  goldn

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Greenhouse tests

  Griggs, David

  Gromyko, Andrei

  Groves, Leslien

  Guardian (London)


  Guillen, Michael

  Halite/Centurion experiments

  Happer, Will

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

  Heisenberg, Werner

  helium

  cold fusion and

  on moonn

  in sun

  high temperature, effects of

  hohlraums

  Holloway, Marshall

  Holt, Rush

  Horizon

  Houtermans, Fritz

  Huemul Island

  Huggins, Robert

  hydrogen

  cold fusion and

  in fusion

  in muon-catalyzed fusion

  stability of

  in sun

  hydrogen-, see deuterium

  hydrogen-, see tritium

  hydrogen bomb, see fusion bomb

  image dissector

  inertial confinement fusion

  see also laser fusion

  Infinite Energy

  instabilities

  kink

  Rayleigh-Taylor

  sausage

  Teller

  instability neutrons (false neutrons)

  Iran

  Iraolagoitia, Pedro

  iron

  ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)

  ITER-Lite

  Ivy Mike

  James, William

  Janus

  JASON

  Japan

  International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and

  JT-in

  JET (Joint European Torus)

  Jones, Steven

  joules

  Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry

  JT-

  Kaempffert, Waldemar

  Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord

  Kennedy, Donn

  Kennedy, John F.

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kidder, Ray

  kink instability

  KMS Industries, Inc.

  Koonin, Steve

  Korean War

  Kruskal, Martin

  Kun, Béla

  Lahey, Richard T., Jr.

  Lapp, Ralph

  LaRouche, Lyndonn

  laser fusion

  Argus

  direct drive versus indirect drive

  Ditmire device

  Halite/Centurion experiments for

  Janus

  LASNEX program and

  National Ignition Facility and

  Nova

  problems with

  Rayleigh-Taylor instability in

  Shiva

  lasers

  LASNEX