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Authors: Barry Parker
CHAPTER 17. THE ATOMIC BOMB
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1
. Isaac Asimov,
The History of Physics
(New York: Walker and Company, 1966), p. 598.
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2
. Amir Aczel,
Uranium Wars
(New York: MacMillan, 2009), p. 179.
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3
. Ibid., p. 74.
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4
. Ibid., p. 88.
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5
. Richard Rhodes,
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), p. 204.
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6
. Ibid., p. 79.
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7
. Aczel,
Uranium Wars
, p. 61.
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8
. Ibid., p. 104.
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9
. Rhodes,
Making of the Atomic Bomb
, p. 256.
10
. Barry Parker,
Quantum Legacy
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 217.
11
. Ibid., p. 213.
12
. Aczel,
Uranium Wars
, p. 132.
13
. Jim Baggott,
The First War of Physics
(New York: Pegasus, 2010), p. 100.
14
. Ibid., p. 89; Aczel,
Uranium Wars
, p. 146.
15
. Baggott,
First War of Physics
, p. 232.
16
. Rhodes,
Making of the Atomic Bomb
, p. 447.
17
. Aczel,
Uranium Wars
, p. 157.
18
. Baggott,
First War of Physics
, p. 279.
19
. Ibid., p. 299.
20
. Aczel,
Uranium Wars
, p. 178.
CHAPTER 18. THE HYDROGEN BOMB, INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES, LASERS, AND THE FUTURE
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. “Thermonuclear Weapon,”
Wikipedia
,
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
(accessed June 20, 2013).
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. Richard Rhodes,
Dark Sun
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), p. 466; “Cold War: A Brief History of the Atomic Bomb,”
atomicarchive.com
,
http://www.atomicarchive.com/history/coldwar/page04.htm
(accessed June 22, 2013).
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3
. Rhodes,
Dark Sun
, p. 468; “Thermonuclear Weapon.”
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4
. Rhodes,
Dark Sun
, p. 482.
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5
. Ibid., p. 506.
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. “Intercontinental Ballistic Missile,”
Wikipedia
,
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/intercontinental_ballistic_missile
(accessed June 26, 2013).
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. Barry Parker,
Quantum Legacy
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002), p. 159.
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. “Gordon Gould,”
Wikipedia
,
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Gould
(accessed September 12, 2013).
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9
. Parker,
Quantum Legacy
, p. 179.
10
. “Extrinsic Semiconductor,
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,
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrinsic_semiconductor
(accessed September 12, 2013).
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. “What Is the Keyhole Satellite and What Can It Really Spy On?” How Stuff Works,
http://www.science.howstuffworks.com/question529.htm
(accessed September 12, 2013).
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. “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,
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,
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle
(accessed June 27, 2013).
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. Joe Haldeman and Martin Greenberg,
Future Weapons of War
(Riverdale, NY: Baen, 2008).
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. “How E-Bombs Work,” How Stuff Works,
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(accessed June 28, 2013).
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. Joel Baglole, “XM25- Future Grenade Launcher,”
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,
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(accessed June 29, 2013).
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. “Smart Bullet,”
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,
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ABM (anti-ballistic missile),
281
acceleration of gravity,
37
,
38
,
82
aces (pilots),
188
acoustic torpedo,
218
active sonar,
216
Adrianople,
49
Adrianople, Battle of,
49
Afghanistan,
23
Agincourt, Battle of,
53
airplanes in World War II,
234
Akkadian Empire,
24
Albacore
,
221
alchemists,
60
Alexander the Great,
33
alpha particles,
247
Alsos Mission,
269
American Civil War,
131
American entry into World War II,
231
American Revolutionary War,
135
ampere,
125
Ampere, Andre,
126
Anderson, Herbert,
264
angle of attack,
175
Anthony,
48
Apollo program,
280
Archimedes' principle,
33
,
150
,
211
,
212
Archimedes' screw,
33
arquebus,
88
atmospheric drag,
112
Babylonia,
28
Babylonians,
24
Bacon, Roger,
61
ballast tanks,
213
ballistic coefficient,
159
ballistic pendulum,
111
balloons (Civil War),
149
barbarians,
49
Bataan,
232
battery,
125
Battle of France,
226
Battle of Hastings,
51
Battle of the Bulge,
234
Battle of Waterloo,
122
bazooka,
240
Ben Hur
,
22
Bernoulli, Daniel,
166
beta particles,
247
Big Bertha,
184
Big Willy,
194
binoculars,
203
Bishop, Billy,
188
Black Bart,
62
Black, Joseph,
108
Bleriot, Louis,
179
Bletchley Park,
223
Bloch, Felix,
263
blockade (Civil War)
144
Boelcke, Oswald,
188
Bolton, Mather,
109
bombe,
244
Boone Daniel,
135
Borgia, Cesare,
70
Bowen, Edward,
228
Boyle's law,
115
Bragg, William,
199
Breit Gregory,
253
British system,
36
bronze,
23
Bronze Age,
24
Caesar,
48
calculus,
101
Cambria, Battle of,
194
caravel,
91
carbine,
136
Carthaginians,
47
Castile,
64
catapult,
32
Cavalla
,
221
Cavendish, Henry,
118
cavity magnetron,
209
center of mass,
92
centripetal force,
114
CH system,
228
Chadwick, James,
245
Charles's law,
152
CHL system,
228
chlorine gas,
192
Christian IV,
99
Church, Gilbert,
267
Churchill, Winston,
193
,
194
,
226
,
244
circumference of earth,
29
clean bomb,
279
coherent light,
286
Colbert, John Baptiste,
106
Colossus, Mark I,
244
Colt, Samuel,
132
Columbus,
91
commutator,
142
composite bow,
43
Compton, Arthur,
259
computers during World War II,
243
conduction band,
289
Confederate States of America,
137
conservation of momentum,
38
Cooke, William,
140
copper,
23
Corona satellites,
292
Corsair,
234
cosmic rays,
263
Coulomb, Charles,
124
Crécy, Battle of,
52
cruise missile,
234
Davy, Humphrey,
126
Descartes, Rene,
114
deuterium,
274
diffusion,
255
doping,
290
Doppler, Christian,
205
Dornberger, Walter,
237
downwash,
175
dyne,
37
early guns of war,
87
earth as giant magnet,
94
e-bomb,
294
Edward III,
52
Egypt,
24
Einstein, Albert,
193
,
246
,
255
,
256
,
257
,
282
Eisenhower, Dwight,
233
electric and magnetic fields,
126
electric field,
197
electric field lines,
95
,
128
,
129
electric generator,
128
electric motor,
128
electromagnetic field,
197
electromagnetic induction,
127
electromagnetic spectrum,
199
electron volt,
252
elevator,
178
Elizabeth (Queen of Belgium),
256
energy,
39
energy band,
288
energy level,
282
Enewetak Atoll,
276
English Revolution,
107
Estes
,
277
excited state,
283
Farragut, David,
147
Fat Man,
267
Ferdinand, Franz,
185
Ferdinand II,
98
Fermi, Enrico,
247
â
50
,
253
â
56
,
263
â
65
,
274
Feynman, Richard,
263
first airplanes,
165
flaps,
177
Flowers, Tommy,
244
Flyer I,
170
Flyer II, III,
172
Flying Circus,
188
Foch, General,
196
Fokker, Anthony,
187
force,
36
form factor,
160
form friction,
176
Franklin, Benjamin,
124
Fritz X,
241
fulcrum,
41
fusion,
273
gain medium,
286
Galileo's ballistics,
81
Galvani, Luigi,
124
gamma rays,
199
Gamow, George,
253
gaseous diffusion,
266
Gatling, Richard,
143
Geiger Counter,
248
German atomic bomb,
269
German U-boats,
190
â
91
,
195
,
219
,
220
,
229
Gettysburg,
138
giant crossbow of Leonardo,
75
Goeben
,
190
Göring, Hermann,
230
Gould, Gordon,
287
GPS,
215
Grant, Ulysses,
139