Sun in a Bottle - Charles Seife [137]
Pons, Stanley
President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
Princeton University
Program No.
Project Chariot
Project Plowshare n
Project Sherwood
proton-proton chain
protons strong force and
pulsars
Purdue University
Putterman, Seth
fusion device of
Rabi, Isidor
radiation
radioactivity fallout
radium
radon
Rayburn, Sam
Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Reagan, Ronaldn
Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)
Religio Chemici (Wilson)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Richter, Ronald
Richter: The Opera
Riedinger, Lee
Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator n
Roentgen, William
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rose, Basil
Rossi, Hugo
Rusk, Dean
Russia:
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and
see also Soviet Union
Rutherford, Ernest
Sakharov, Andrein n
lasers and
sloika design of
Teller and
tokamak designed by
Salamon, Michael
Saltmarsh, Michael
Sandia Natural Laboratories
sausage instability
science
Science
Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship program
science journalism, embargo system in
Scientific American
Schwarzschild, Martin
Schweitzer, Albert
Schwinger, Julian
Scylla
Serber, Robertn
Shapira, Dan
Shiva
Siegel, Keeve M.
silicon
sloika bomb
sonoluminescence
South Korea
Soviet Union
atomic weapons of
fusion projects in n
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and
in Korean Warn
Limited Test Ban Treaty with
nuclear weapons moratorium in
Program No.in
Sputnik launched by
Star Wars program and n
ZETA and
space programn
Spitzer, Lyman
tokamak and
stability:
atoms’ desire for
see also instabilities
stars
equilibrium in
fusion in
pulsars
supernovas
see also sun
Star Wars programn
Stellarator
stimulated emissions
stockpile stewardship
Strauss, Lewis
strong force
strontium-
Suez Canal
sulfur
sun
age of
energy of
fusion in
Sununu, John
superbomb, see fusion bomb
supernovas
surface-enhanced Raman scattering
Suslick, Ken
tabletop fusion
bubble
Ditmire device
Farnsworth device
Olson device
Putterman device
Taleyarkhan, Rusi:
bubble fusion work of
investigation of
variable-speed bullet invention of
Tamm, Igorn
Tassn
Tatlock, Jean
Taylor, Ted
television
Teller, Edward
Alarm Clock design of
as anti-Communist
background of
cold fusion and
egocentrism of
Limited Test Ban Treaty and
nuclear weapons moratorium and
Oppenheimer as enemy of
optimism of
paranoia of
and peaceful uses of nuclear weapons
radioactive fallout as viewed by n
Sakharov and
Star Wars program and n
Teller instability
TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor)
thermodynamics, laws of
thermotron
Thirring, Hans
Thomson, J. J.
Thomson, William, Lord Kelvin
thorium
Timen
tokamaks
ignition and sustained burn in
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
JET (Joint European Torus)
JT-
TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor)
tritiumn n n
bubble fusion and
National Ignition Facility and
tritium-deuterium reactions
Truman, Harry S.
Tsoukalas, Lefteri
Tuck, James
Ulam, Françoise
Ulam, Stanislaw
Ulam-Teller devices n
United Nations (UN)
Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC)
Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
universal solvents
uranium nn
uranium-
Valone, Thomas
Von Neumann, John
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
What’s New
Wheeler, John Archibald
“Will to Believe, The” (James)
Wilson, George
Wired
wishful thinking
World War
x-rays
Xu, Yiban
ZETA (Zero-Energy Thermonuclear Assembly)
1
Apparently, Soviet translators erred when they received word of Fermi’s experiment. Soviet scientists were led to believe that the nuclear pile was in a “pumpkin field” instead of a “squash court.”
2
In the interest of secrecy, Manhattan Project scientists seldom referred to these compounds by their real name. Uranium-235 was referred to by the code names “magnesium” or “25”; plutonium-239 was “copper” or “49.”
3
Teller’s obsessive hatred of Communists and single-minded desire to build fusion weapons reportedly led Enrico Fermi to tell him, “In my acquaintance,