Armageddon Science (31 page)

escape velocity

Esolen, Anthony

Euclid

European Court of Human Rights

Eve

and the tree in the garden of Eden

event horizon

evolution

human beings and

and mutations

and natural selection

evolutionary theory

natural selection and

ExxonMobil

campaign to dismiss global

warming

Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, The,

Fantastic Voyage
(Asimov)

Fat Man.
See
plutonium bomb

Faust, Johann

Fells, Ian

Feodosia (Ukraine)

Black Death and the siege of

Fermi, Enrico

Feynman, Richard

firewalls

flagellum

Florida

rising seas and

wildfires and

food, access to

foot-and-mouth disease as potential weapon

Forbidden Planet
(film)

France

maintaining nuclear deterrent, questioning

and nuclear weapons

Franck, James

Franck report

Frankenstein
(Shelley)

Frankenstein, Baron Victor (fictional character)

Hollywood and

Friends of the Earth

Frisch, Otto

G series nerve gases

gamma ray bursts

gamma rays

gas warfare

chlorine gas, effects of

Lewisite

mustard gas, effects of

nerve gases

phosgene gas, effects of

World War I, gas warfare in

World War II

Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide gas)

gaseous diffusion

and attempts to separate uranium 235

gasoline, explosive power of

Geiger counters indiscriminate use of

Geiger, Hans

Gell-Mann, Murray

Genesis

Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II)

Germany

and biological weapons

codes, cracking of

firebombing raids on

G series nerve gases

and gas warfare

Nazi concentration camps, cyanide gas and

and nuclear weapon development

Gillmor, Helen

global warming.
See
climate change

Global Crop Diversity Trust

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

model of the Earth’s climate

Gore, Al

Gould, Gordon

granite

background radiation level

gravity

gray goo scenario

Greek civilization

and the concept of the atom

fall of

Greek philosophers

Arabs and

Western scientific knowledge and

Green Goblin (fictional character)

Greene, Robert

greenhouse effect

and positive feedback

reducing

science reducing

Greenland

ice sheet, disappearance of

Guiney, Sue

H-bomb (hydrogen bomb)

Bikini Atoll test

Elugelab (Eniwetok Atoll) test

fallout

power of

radiation poisoning

the Sausage (H-bomb)

the Shrimp (H-bomb)

U.S. General Advisory Committee report on

H1 N1 (swine flu) outbreak

Haber, Clara

Haber, Fritz

hackers

Hague Convention of 1899

Hahn, Otto

Hamburg

firebombing raids on

Hammett, Dashiell

Hansen, Jim

Harris, Larry

Harteck, Paul

Hawking radiation

Heisenberg, Werner

Herculaneum

high-speed centrifuges and attempts to separate uranium 235

Hiroshima (bombing of)

after effects

death tolls

radiation sickness

Harry Truman on

Hitler, Adolph

Hoffman, Dustin

Holdren, John P.

Holy Sonnet 14
(Donne)

Homo cyberneticus

Homo hybridus

Homo sapiens (human beings)

artificially upgraded

emergence of

evolution of

nanoparticles, potential to harm

Neanderthals and

Honourable History of Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, The
(Greene)

human beings (Homo sapiens) artificially upgraded

evolution of

nanoparticles, potential to harm

Neanderthals and

Hurricane Katrina

hurricanes

death and destruction from

global warming and

hydrogen bomb

ice disappearance

global warming and

wildlife, effect on

Ice Nine

Inconvenient Truth, An
(film) facts, carelessness with

India

Bhopal disaster

economic growth

India/Pakistan border disputes

and nuclear weapons

industrial accidents

infections

bacterial

fungal

viral

information technology (disruption of)

accidents as cause of

addressing computers

cyberterrorism and

denial-of-service attacks

impact of

wireless connections, vulnerability of

See also
Internet

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)

Internet

cyberterrorism

origins

viruses, trojans, and worms

wireless connections, vulnerability of

See also
information technology

Invisible Man (fictional character)

Iran

and nuclear weapons

Iran-Iraq war

Iraq’s use of nerve gas

iridium

isotope uranium 239

Israel

and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997

and nuclear weapons

Izrael, Yuri

Japan

and biological weapons

codes, cracking of

firebombing raids on

Hiroshima, bombing of

Nagasaki, bombing of

and tsunamis preparation

volcano monitoring technology

Jardine, Lisa

Joint European Torus (Culham, England)

Journey to the Center of the Earth
(Verne)

Joyce, James

K/Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event)

K/T (Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event)

and the dinosaurs

kangaroos

and methane output

Kennedy, John

Khrushchev, Nikita

killer machines

King, William

Konopinski, Emil

Korean War

cobalt 60, MacArthur’s plan to use

Krakatoa, East of Java
(film)

Krakatoa eruption

ash thrown up

Kurzweil, Ray

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

Lang, Fritz

Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

destructive materials, potential for

energy produced by

Hawking radiation

micro black holes

opposition to

strangelets, formation of

laser

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

Legionnaires’ disease as potential weapon

Lehrer, Tom

Leucippus

Lewis, Winford Lee

Lewisite

Lilienthal, David

Lille Boy.
See
uranium bomb

livestock

and methane output

London

electricity and gas networks, IRA plot against

Los Alamos (New Mexico)

Lucretius

Luther, Martin

Luthor, Lex (fictional character)

Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich

MacArthur, Douglas

McCoy, Dr. (fictional character)

McKibben, Joe

McMillan, Edwin

McVeigh, Timothy

mad scientists

as dangers to the world

Einstein as image of

Hollywood and

the Nazis

stereotyping

talking brass head

See also
natural philosophy; science

Magnus, Albertus

Maiman, Theodore Harold

Making of Optical Glass in India, Proceedings of the National Institute of Sciences of India, The,

Manhattan Project (University of Chicago)

Marlowe, Christopher

Marsden, Ernest

mass destruction

alien invasion

artificially upgraded humans

asteroid collisions

atomic devastation

biological weapons

chemical weapons

climate catastrophe

earthquakes

gamma ray bursts

hurricanes and tsunamis

industrial accidents

information technology, disruption of

nanotechnology

particle physics

Sun going nova

volcanos

mass extermination

K/Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene event)

K/T (Cretaceous-Tertiary event)

Tunguska (Siberia) event

Matsumoto, sarin attack on

matter, composition of

Meitner, Lise

Merton Collage (Oxford)

methane

livestock and

Siberian permafrost melting and

Metropolis
(film)

Mexico

swine flu (H1 N1) outbreak

Michell, John

micro black holes

Hawking radiation and

microchips, sabotaging

microorganisms

MILNET

MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccination

panic concerning

Morbius, Dr. (fictional character)

Moreau, Dr. (fictional character)

Morris, Robert

Morris, Robert, Sr.

Mount St. Helens

Mount Vesuvius

muons

and volcano monitoring

mustard gas

effects of

Nagasaki bombing

after effects

deaths from

and the Japanese surrender

“nano” as a prefix

nanobots

as weapons

nanofibers

nanoparticles

and carbon dioxide

human beings, potential to harm

and sunscreens

nanotechnology

applications

computer chips

gray goo scenario

military uses

molecular level, manipulating objects at

mutations

opposition to

replication process

See also
atoms

nanotubes

NASA

and ice disappearance

and the Yellowstone supervolcano

NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts conference (Arlington, Virginia)

National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center

National Security Agency (NSA)

natural philosophy

superstition toward

See also
mad scientists; science

natural selection

and evolutionary theory

Nazi concentration camps, cyanide gas and

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Nemo, Captain (fictional character)

neptunium

nerve gas

effectiveness

G series nerve gases

sarin nerve gas

as terrorist weapon

V series nerve gases

VX nerve gas

NEST (Nuclear Emergency Support Team)

neutrons

New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina and

New Scientist
magazine

New York City

background radiation level

New York Herald Tribune,

New York Stock Exchange denial-of-service attack

New Zealand

telecommunications collapse

Newton, Isaac

Nicaragua

wildfires and

Nixon, Richard

North Korea

Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997

denial-of-service attack on the U.S.

and nuclear weapons

North Pole

ice disappearance and

nuclear decay

Nuclear Emergency Support Team (NEST)

nuclear fusion

nuclear fusion reactors

nuclear power plants

accidents at