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Oxford University Press, 1969); Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Coming Race (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1874); Alexandra Aldridge, The Scientific World View in Dystopia (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1984), 10-11.

3. Szilard to Sir Hugo Hirst, 17 Mar. 1934, in Philip L. Cantelon, Richard G. Hewlett, and Robert C. Williams, eds., The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 2nd edn. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991), 7-8; Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), 14-17, 21-5; Gerard J. DeGroot, The Bomb: A History of Hell on Earth (London: Pimlico, 2005), 5-6.

4. Robert Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, trans. James Cleugh (San Diego: Harcourt, 1958), 7; Charles Weiner, ‘New Site for the Seminar’, in Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, eds., The

Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930—1960 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969), 194-5.

5. Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, 53—6; J. W. Boag, P E. Rubinin, and D. Shoenberg, eds., Kapitza in Cambridge and Moscow: Life and Letters of a Russian Physicist (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1990), 195.

6. Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, 34—6; Jean Medawar and David Pyke, Hitler’s Gift: Scientists who Fled Nazi Germany (London: Piatkus, 2000), 3, 9, 26—7; Frank R. Pfetsch, ‘Germany: Three Models of Interaction—Weimar, Nazi, Federal Republic’, in Etel Solingen, ed., Scientists and the State: Domestic Structures and the International Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), 198—9.

7. Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, 37; Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 21; Pfetsch, ‘Germany’, 199.

8. Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 26, 33—46, 85—7; Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 185—6, 192.

9. Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 87—9; L. F. Haber, The Poisonous Cloud: Chemical Warfare in the First World War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 306, 312.

10. Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 80—5, 220—1; Margaret Gowing, Britain and Atomic Energy 1939-1945 (New York: St Martin’s, 1964), 46—8.

11. Leo Szilard, ‘Reminiscences’, in Fleming and Bailyn, Intellectual Migration, 94— 141. See also Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 20—1, 192—3; Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 213—15.

12. Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb, 568; id., Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 56—7; Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, 187.

13. Rhodes, Dark Sun, 54—5; Lansing Lamont, Day of Trinity (New York: Atheneum, 1965), 29—30.

14. Rhodes, Dark Sun, 55 —7; Lamont, Day of Trinity, 30; Ronald W Clark, The Greatest Power on Earth: The International Race for Nuclear Supremacy (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), 106.

15. Rhodes, Dark Sun, 57—8.

16. Medawar and Pyke, Hitler’s Gift, 85.

17. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Pantheon, 1978), 259.

18. Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, 48, 71.

19. Baldwin quoted in Horst Boog, ‘Harris: A German View’, in Sir Arthur T. Harris, Despatch on Wjr Operations, 23rd February, 1942, to 8th May, 1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1995), p. xli.

20. DeGroot, The Bomb, 2; Charles Messenger, ‘Bomber’ Harris and the Strategic Bombing Offensive, 1939—1945 (New York: St Martin’s, 1984), 13; Robin Neillands, The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive against Nazi Germany (Woodstock and New York: Overlook Press, 2001), 12.

21. Neillands, Bomber Wjr, 12—13; Messenger, ‘Bomber’ Harris, 13.

22. Andrew Boyle, Trenchard (London: Collins, 1962), 221—2.

23. Ibid. 223—4, 229; Dudley Saward, Bomber Harris: The Story of Sir Arthur Harris (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1985), 17-18.

24. Boyle, Trenchard, 56-62, 97, 115-16, 137-41.

25. Ibid. 166, 186-8, 239, 311-12.

26. Ibid. 299; Messenger, ‘Bomber’ Harris, 16-18; Michael S. Sherry, The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987), 19, 24, 34-5; David R. Mets, The Air Campaign: John Warden and the Classical Airpower Theorists (Maxwell

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