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Fusion Energy Foundation
n
 
Gai, Moshe
gamma rays
Gamow, George
Garwin, Richard
gas, natural
gasses
General Advisory Committee (GAC)
Germany
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and
Gilliland, Gil
global warming
gold
n
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Greenhouse tests
Griggs, David
Gromyko, Andrei
Groves, Leslie
n
Guardian
(London)
Guillen, Michael
 
Halite/Centurion experiments
Happer, Will
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heisenberg, Werner
helium
cold fusion and
on moon
n
in sun
high temperature, effects of
hohlraums
Holloway, Marshall
Holt, Rush
Horizon
Houtermans, Fritz
Huemul Island
Huggins, Robert
hydrogen
cold fusion and
in fusion
in muon-catalyzed fusion
stability of
in sun
hydrogen-,
see
deuterium
hydrogen-,
see
tritium
hydrogen bomb,
see
fusion bomb
 
image dissector
inertial confinement fusion
see also
laser fusion
Infinite Energy
instabilities
kink
Rayleigh-Taylor
sausage
Teller
instability neutrons (false neutrons)
Iran
Iraolagoitia, Pedro
iron
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
ITER-Lite
Ivy Mike
 
James, William
Janus
JASON
Japan
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and
JT-in
JET (Joint European Torus)
Jones, Steven
joules
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
JT-
 
Kaempffert, Waldemar
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
Kennedy, Don
n
Kennedy, John F.
Khrushchev, Nikita
Kidder, Ray
kink instability
KMS Industries, Inc.
Koonin, Steve
Korean War
Kruskal, Martin
Kun, Béla
 
Lahey, Richard T., Jr.
Lapp, Ralph
LaRouche, Lyndon
n
laser fusion
Argus
direct drive versus indirect drive
Ditmire device
Halite/Centurion experiments for
Janus
LASNEX program and
National Ignition Facility and
Nova
problems with
Rayleigh-Taylor instability in
Shiva
lasers
LASNEX
Lawrence, Ernest
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
n
cold fusion and
laser fusion at
magnetic fusion at
National Ignition Facility at
lead
n
Lewis, Nathan
Li, Tanhui
Libby, Willard
n
light:
color of
converting sound into
generating
Lilienthal, David
n
Limited Test Ban Treaty
lithium
Lopez de Bertodano, Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fuchs at
Halite/Centurion experiments at
laser fusion projects at
Manhattan Project at
pinch program at
Los Angeles Times
Lyne, Andrew
 
MacArthur, Douglas
McCarthy, Joseph
Mach, Ernst
n
McMahon, Brien
Maddox, John
magnetic fields
magnetic fusion
budgets for
cleanliness of
ignition and sustained burn in
international collaboration in
pinch machines,
see
pinch machines
Stellarator
tokamaks,
see
tokamaks
magnetic mirror
magnetohydrodynamics
Mallove, Eugene
Manhattan Project
n
Manley, John
Mao Tse-tung
Mark, Carson
n
Marx, Karl
Mascheroni, Leo
Maxwell, James Clerk
Mendeleev, Dmitri
mercury
Meyerhof, Walter
Miller, Brad
Milton, John
momentum, conservation of
n
Monte Carlo method
n
moon
n
Moran, Mike
Moss, William
Mossadegh, Mohammed
n
muon-catalyzed fusion
muons
 
Naranjo, Brian
NASA
n
National Ignition Facility (NIF)
National Nuclear Security Administration
Nature
bubble fusion and
cold fusion and
laser fusion and
ZETA and
neon
neutron activation
neutrons
bubble fusion and
cold fusion and
damage caused by
discovery of
false
in fission
in fusion
n
in laser fusion
in pinch machines
in Putterman’s device
radioactivity caused by
neutrons (
continued
)
in Scylla
in ZETA
New England Journal of Medicine
New Republic
New Scientist
Newton, Isaac
New York Times
n
n
nickel
NIF (National Ignition Facility)
nitrogen
Nixon, Richard M.
Nova
Nuckolls, John
Nuclear Engineering and Design
nuclear fallout
nuclear fission,
see
fission
nuclear fusion,
see
fusion
nuclear power, peaceful uses of
Program No.
Project Plowshare
n
nuclear reactors
nuclear weapons
aging of
Dyson on
moratoriums on
National Ignition Facility and
Reliable Replacement Warhead
Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator
n
stockpile stewardship program and
see also
fission bomb; fusion bomb
 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
bubble fusion and
Observer
Odyssey, The
(Homer)
oil
oil crisis
Olson, Thiago
OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
n
background of
Communist sympathies of
General Advisory Committee chaired by
hearing on
odd behavior exhibited by
Teller as enemy of
Oppenheimer, Kitty
Osbourne, Ian
oxygen
 
palladium
Palmer, E. Paul
Panama Canal
Paneth, Fritz
Paradise Lost
(Milton)
Park, Robert
particle accelerators
Pauling, Linus
PCAST (President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology)
Perhapsatron
Perón, Juan
Peters, Kurt
Peterson, Chase
photons
Physical Review E
pyroelectric fusion
n
n
pinch machines
Columbus
density of plasma in
kink instability in
makeup of plasma in
Perhapsatron
sausage instability in
Scylla
ZETA
Pitzer, Kenneth
Planck, Max
planet, discovery of
plasmas
lasers and
see also
laser fusion; magnetic fusion; pinch machines
Platt, Charles
plutonium
n
polywater
Ponomarev, Leonid
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, Ronald
n
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, Andrei
n
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, Robert
n
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 War
n
Limited Test Ban Treaty with
nuclear weapons moratorium in
Program No.in
Sputnik launched by
Star Wars program and
n
ZETA and
space program
n
Spitzer, Lyman
tokamak and
stability:
atoms’ desire for
see also
instabilities
stars
equilibrium in
fusion in
pulsars
supernovas
see also
sun
Star Wars program
n
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, Igor
n
Tass
n
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
Time
n
tokamaks
ignition and sustained burn in
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
JET (Joint European Torus)
JT-
TFTR (Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor)
tritium
n
n
n
bubble fusion and
National Ignition Facility and

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