Seven Elements That Have Changed the World (52 page)

IAEA,
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International Institute for Strategic Studies,
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:
Pakistan
,
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Johnson, Charles and Jackson, Charles,
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(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981)

Lamont, Lansing,
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(London: Hutchinson, 1966)

Lifton, Robert Jay,
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(London: Penguin Books, 1971)

McNamara, Robert, ‘Mutual Deterrence’, 1962

National Diet of Japan,
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, 2012

Norris, Robert S. and Kristensen, Hans M., ‘Global nuclear weapons inventories’, 1945–2010,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Nuclear Energy Agency,
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O’Neil, John,
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:
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ORNL,
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,
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,
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Pocock, R. F.,
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:
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Rhodes, Richard,
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Rutherford, E., ‘Nuclear Constitution of Atoms’,
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Socolow, Robert, ‘Reflections on Fukushima: A time to mourn, to learn, and to teach’,
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Studera, Michael H. et al., ‘Lignin content in natural Populus variants affects sugar release’,
PNAS
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UN,
The Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons
(1968)

UNSCEAR,
Source and Effects of Ionising Radiation
, United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, 2008 Report to the General Assembly, Vol. II, ‘Health effects due to radiation from the Chernobyl Accident’ (New York: United Nations, 2011)

Young, J. et al.,
Radiation and Public Perception
, Advances in Chemistry (Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1995)

Zeman, Scott and Amundson, Michael,
Atomic Culture
,
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2004)

Zoellner, Tom,
Uranium
(New York: Viking, 2009)

Aldersey-Williams, Hugh,
Periodic Tales
(London: Viking, 2011)

Cohen, B.,
Cambridge Companion to Newton
(Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002)

Crickmore, Paul,
Lockheed Blackbird
:
Beyond the Secret Mission
(Oxford: Osprey, 2004)

Crickmore, Paul.
Lockheed SR-71
:
Operations in the Far East
(Oxford: Osprey, 2008)

Crickmore, Paul.
Lockheed SR-71
:
Operations in Europe and the Middle East
(Oxford: Osprey, 2009)

Emsley, John,
Nature’s Building Blocks
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)

Graham, Richard,
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(Osceola: Motorbooks International, 1996)

Grätzel, Michael and O’Regan, Brian, ‘A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO
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Haydon, Robert,
The Autobiography and Memoirs of Benjamin Robert Haydon:
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Klaproth, Martin,
Analytical Analytical Essays Towards Promoting the Chemical Knowledge of Mineral Substances
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Leyens, Christoph and Peters, Manfred,
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,
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Mills, A. A., ‘Newton’s Prism and his Experiments on the Spectrum’,
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Phillips, Lance and Barbano, David, ‘The Influence of Fat Substitutes Based on Protein and Titanium Dioxide on the Sensory Properties of Low-fat Milks’,
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Polmar, Norman,
Cold War Submarines
(Virginia: Potomac Books, 2004)

Polmar, Norman,
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(Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1991)

RAND, ‘Titanium: Industrial Base, Price Trends, and Technology Initiatives’ (RAND Corporation, 2009)

Rich, B. R. and Janos, L.,
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(Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1994)

Winkler, Jochen,
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Auerbach, Jeffrey,
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(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999)

Beaver, Patrick,
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(Chichester: Phillimore, 1986)

Becquerel, A. E., ‘Mémoire sur les effets électriques produits sous l’influence des rayons solaires’,
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, 9: 561–7 (1839)

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Biringuccio, Vannoccio,
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Bricknell, David,
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:
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Deboni, Franco,
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,
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,
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,
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Siffert and Krimmel,
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Benjamin, Walter,
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Groves, Leslie, R.,
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Statistical data has mostly been derived from the BP Statistical Review of World Energy and the IEA World Energy Outlook

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Abramovich, Roman,
223

Académie des Sciences,
114

Adams, Eddie,
117-18

Advisory Committee on Uranium,
130

Aegean Sea,
95
,
111

Agricola, Georgius
42
,
108-10
,
163
,
194
,
232-3
,
244

Aioi Bridge,
124

air pollution,
37-40
,
219-20

Alaska,
xi
,
33
,
44
,
60
,
177

Albert, Prince,
168

Alcibiades,
233

Alexandria,
231

Alfonso, Juan Pablo Pérez,
62

Algeria,
224

Alsace Lorraine,
xiv
,
5
,
212

Altdorf,
113

aluminium,
155-6
,
242

American Civil War,
1
,
13
,
47
,
100
,
174
,
215

American River,
91
,
93

Amoco,
58
,
65

Amoco Cadiz
,
49

Anchorage,
xi
,
177-8

Anglo-Iranian Oil Company,
33
,
55
,
136

Angola,
44
,
62-4
,
66
,
225

Anne of Austria, Queen,
164

Apple,
186

Arab Spring,
xiii
,
187
,
200

Aral,
6

Archimedes,
172

Arévalo, Juan de,
89

Argentina,
59

Aristotle,
157
,
171

Arizona,
173

asphalt,
220

Atahualpa, Emperor,
88
,
106
,
108

Athens,
110-11

Atlantic Empress
,
49

Atlantic LNG,
67

atomic bombs,
xiv
,
109
,
124
,
126
,
128
,
130-5
,
137-40
,
144-6
,
198
,
237-8
,
249

see also
nuclear weapons

atomic forces,
237-8

atomic structure,
210

atoms, splitting,
128-9

Atoms for Peace programme,
145

Attlee, Clement,
137

Auschwitz,
117
,
126

Australia,
68
,
76

Azerbaijan,
x-xi
,
45-6

Aztecs,
88

Bahamas,
88

Bailey, Elizabeth,
15
,
214

Bakhtiari women,
91

Baku,
x
,
45

Bank of England,
98-9

Banks, Sir Joseph,
172

Bardeen, John,
179
,
181
,
183
,
250

barter, beginnings of,
xii

Beaton, Cecil,
117

Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond,
174

Becquerel, Henri,
127
,
174
,
234

Beijing,
38
,
42
,
219

Beijing Olympics,
39-40

Belarus,
240

Bell Laboratories,
174-6
,
178-9
,
181

Benjamin, Walter,
201

Berezovsky, Boris,
223