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  America’s Achilles’ Heel (Falkenrath, Newman, Thayer)

  anarchists

  Anderson, Martin

  anthrax

  Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM)

  Apollo Project

  arms control. See also Biological Weapons Convention; Geneva Protocol; Nonproliferation Treaty

  Arndt, H. W.

  Aronson, Gerald

  Artificial Intelligence

  Asahara, Shoko

  assassinations

  asylum. See also United Nations

  Atoms for Peace. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Attlee, Clement

  Augustine, Norman

  Augustine, Saint

  Aum Shinrikyo

  Australia

  Babri Mosque

  Baruch Plan

  Basques

  Batasuna Party

  Battle of New Orleans

  BCI. See brain-computer interface

  Beirut Marine barracks attack

  Belgium

  Berners-Lee, Tim

  Best of Intentions (Sokolski)

  Betts, Richard

  Bierstadt, Albert

  Bikini Atoll

  bin Laden, Osama

  biological weapons; politically correct illusions and; use of

  Biological Weapons Convention (BW Convention)

  biotechnology. See also neuroscience

  Blair, Bruce

  Bolsheviks

  Bosnia

  brain: computers and; intelligence/size

  brain science. See neuroscience

  brain-computer interface (BCI)

  Braudel, Fernand

  Brave New World (Huxley)

  Brennan, Donald

  Brezhnev, Leonid

  British Empire

  Bruno, Giordano

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew

  Bull, Hedley

  Burma, political repression in

  Bush, George H. W.

  Bush, George W.

  BW Convention. See Biological Weapons Convention

  Caliphate

  Cambodia, under Pol Pot

  Carter, Jimmy

  Castro, Fidel

  Catholicism

  Cato

  Central Asian republics

  cesium

  Ceuta

  Chamberlain, Neville

  Cheney, Dick

  China; science/technology and; on superhuman intelligence

  Christianity

  Churchill, Winston; National Coalition Government of; on nuclear danger; on nuclear deterrence. See also Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  The City of God (Augustine)

  civil liberties

  civilians, killing of

  civilization

  Clinton, Bill

  cloning

  Cold War

  Cole, Thomas

  Common Market

  communications

  computers: brain and; use of

  Comte, Auguste

  Congo, reactors in

  Constantinople

  Cuba

  Cuban missile crisis

  cults

  cultural lag

  cultural split; railroads and; widening divergence and; world of two souls and

  culture

  Czolgosz, Leon

  Daly, Herman E.

  Danzig, Richard

  Dark Age

  Darwin, Charles

  death: deconstruction of; natural

  Declaration of War

  The Decline of the West (Spengler)

  democracy

  Deng Xiaoping

  Denmark

  Department of Homeland Security

  “dirty bombs”

  distance, shrinking of

  doctor-assisted suicide

  Domestic Nuclear Detection Office

  Dror, Yehezkel

  dual-power stratagem. See also Trotsky, Leon

  dual use

  Dulles, John Foster

  dynamite

  Dzerzhinski, Feliks

  Eastern Europe

  economic growth

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.. See also Atoms for Peace; Churchill, Winston

  elderly

  Ellul, Jacques

  emotions

  England

  Enlightenment

  Erikson, Erik

  ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [Basque Country and Freedom])

  ethics: medical; science and

  Europe. See also Eastern Europe; Western Europe

  European Union

  euthanasia

  Falkenrath, Richard A.

  Faustian bargain

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Feith, Douglas J.

  Fermi, Enrico

  Fides et Ratio (encyclical)

  First All-Russian Congress of Soviets

  Flynn, Stephen

  Foster, John

  France

  Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus (Shelley)

  Franklin, Benjamin

  free market

  free trade

  French Revolution

  Friedman, Thomas L.

  Friedrich, Caspar David

  Fukuyama, Francis

  Fulbright, William

  Galilei, Galileo

  Garreau, Joel

  Garwin, Richard

  G-8 summit

  Geneva Protocol (1925)

  Geothe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Germany; National Socialist Party of; Nazi; Weimar Republic and

  Gingrich, Newt

  globalization

  Gorbachev, Mikhail

  Gray, Colin S.

  Gray Dawn (Peterson)

  Gray, John

  Great Britain

  Great Depression

  Greeks

  Greenbrier plan

  Guatemala

  Guillemin, Jeanne

  Gulf War (1991)

  The Hague

  Haitian refugees

  Hannaford, Peter

  Harvard University’s Managing the Atom Project

  Hawkins, Jeff

  Henry, Ryan

  Herman, Arthur

  Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU)

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hindus

  Hiroshima

  Hispanics

  Hitler, Adolf; Reichstag Fire and; during Weimar Republic

  Holland

  Honduras

  Huntington, Samuel P.

  Hussein, Saddam

  Huxley, Aldous

  The Idea of Decline (Herman)

  “ideology of hierarchism”

  Ignatieff, Michael

  immortality

  India

  Indonesia

  Industrial Revolution

  Insurrection Act

  International Anarchist Congress (1881)

  International Criminal Tribunal

  Internet

  IRA. See Irish Republican Army

  Iran

  Iraq

  Ireland

  Irish Republican Army (IRA)

  Islam

  Islamic movements

  Islamic societies

  Islamists, militant

  It Can’t Happen Here (Lewis)

  Japan; nuclear weapons and; sarin attacks in

  Jensen, Arthur R.

  Jervis, Robert

  Jews

  Jihadists

  John Paul II, Pope

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Jordan

  Judaism

  Keats, John

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kerensky, Aleksandr

  Khan, Abdul Qadeer

  Khobar Towers attack

  Kim Il Sung

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kurzweil, Ray

  Lahn, Bruce T.

  language

  Laos

  Laqueur, Walter

  Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

  Lebanon

  Lederberg, Joshua

  Lehman, John

 
; LeMay, Curtis

  Lenin, Vladimir

  The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror (Ignatieff)

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Libya

  life extension/prolongation of

  Light, Paul C.

  “limits of physics”

  Lindbergh, Charles

  London bombings

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Lugar, Richard

  Macauley, Thomas B.

  Machiavelli, Niccolò

  MAD. See Mutual Assured Destruction

  Madansky, Albert

  Madrid train bombings

  Malenkov, Georgii

  Manhattan Project

  Mantoux, Paul

  Mao Ze-dong

  Marlowe, Christopher

  Marx, Karl

  Marxism

  McKinley, William

  Mein Kampf (Hitler)

  Melilla asylum seekers

  memory

  Mexico

  Michelangelo

  Middle Ages

  Middle East

  military: affairs, revolution in; history lessons; technology and

  Mill, John Stuart

  Milosevic, Slobodan

  Mokyr, Joel

  Morocco

  mortality: human; rates

  MOX

  multiculturalism

  Munro, Donald J.

  Murakami, Haruki

  Musharrraf, Pervez

  Muslims

  Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

  Nagasaki

  Nanos, Dr. G. Peter

  Napoleon III

  National Coalition Government

  National Emergency Act (1974)

  nationalism

  nations

  nation-states

  NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

  Netherlands

  neurophysiology

  neuroscience; control of human brain in

  Newman, Robert D.

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nobel, Alfred

  Nonproliferation Treaty

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization. See NATO

  North Korea

  Norway

  nuclear danger

  nuclear reactors

  nuclear technology

  nuclear war plans

  nuclear weapons; accidents/unauthorized use of; detection of; deterrence of; elimination/reduction of; global economy and; Japan and; mutual deterrence; non-use of; Soviet Union on; U.S. and; use of. See also Mutual Assured Destruction

  Nunn, Sam

  Nunn-Lugar program

  Ode to a Nightingale (Keats)

  Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

  Ogburn, William F.

  old age

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  Oregon, doctor-assisted suicide in

  Ornstein, Norman J.

  Orthodox Christians

  Ottoman Empire

  Pakistan

  Palestine

  PALs. See Permissive Action Links Pastoral Symphony (Beethoven)

  Payne, Keith

  Pearl Harbor attack

  Peloponnesian war

  Penrose, Roger

  Perle, Richard

  Permissive Action Links (PALs)

  Peterson, Peter G.

  “physical capital”

  Pillsbury, Michael

  plutonium

  Pol Pot

  Pontifical Academy of Science

  population, world

  Presidential Appointee Initiative

  “Preventing and Defending Against Clandestine Nuclear Attack” (report)

  Proliferation Security Initiative

  Protestant Reformation

  Protestantism

  Putin, Vladimir

  Al Qaeda

  Qian, Wen-yuan

  Quadrennial Defense Review

  Radical Evolution (Garreau)

  Raffarin, Jean-Pierre

  railroads

  RAND Corporation

  Reagan, Ronald

  Refugee Act (1980)

  refugees

  Reichstag Fire

  religions; Asian; mortality beliefs among

  Renaissance

  retirement: age; delayed

  Reynolds, David

  The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth (Arndt)

  Roman Catholics

  Roman Empire

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rotblatt, Joseph

  Roth, Philip

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russia; cults in; Czarist; Federal Security Service. See also Soviet Union

  Russian Social Democratic Labor Party

  al-Sadr, Muqtada

  Saradzhyan, Simon

  sarin

  Saudi Arabia

  Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.

  science: ethics and; life science; technology and. See also computers; specific fields

  Semtex explosives

  Seneca

  Shelley, Mary

  Shiavo, Terri

  Sinn Fein

  Snow, C. P.

  Soddy, Fredrick

  Sokolski, Henry

  Sophocles

  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Goethe)

  South Korea

  Soviet Union; on nuclear weapons; on “Soviet man”. See also Russia

  Spain

  Sparkman, John

  Spencer, Herbert

  Spengler, Oswald

  Stafford Act

  Stalin, Joseph V.

  “stationary state”

  Stevens, Paul Schott

  Stock, Gregory

  Strategic Defense Initiative (1983)

  Strauss, Lewis

  Strontium 90

  Sudan

  Suharto, Raden

  suicide, doctor-assisted

  superhuman intelligence; China on; U.S. on

  Suppy, Priorities, and Allocation Board

  Syria

  Taiwan

  Tajikistan

  Taliban regime

  Taylor, Theodore B.

  technology; China and science; detection; dual use of; military and; nuclear; science and

  Tegnelia, Dr. James A.

  telegraph

  telephones

  Teller, Edward

  Temple Mount

  territorial sovereignty

  terrorism; biological; definitions of; jihadist /millitant Islamists; sabotage vs.; victims of. See also nuclear weapons; specific groups

  Thayer, Bradley A.

  Thucydides

  Toynbee, Arnold

  travel, long-distance

  Trotsky, Leon. See also dual-power stratagem

  Truman, Harry S.

  Turkmenistan

  Turney, Jon

  “two souls,” world of

  “tyranny of distance”

  Ultimate Emergency Plan: factors of; measures

  Unamuno, Miguel de

  United Nations (UN); on arms control; Asylum Convention; Protocol to Asylum Convention

  United States (U.S.); attacks on; child labor laws; continuity of; Declaration of War; defense of; democracy and; mobilization laws of; nuclear weapons and; presidency of; retirement age in; on superhuman intelligence; territorial sovereignty of; “two souls” of; war plans of

  United World Federalists

  uranium

  Urex-Plus fuel

  U.S. Air Force

  U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

  U.S. Atomic Energy Committee

  U.S. Capitol

  U.S. Coast Guard

  U.S. Congress

  U.S. Constitution

  U.S. Department of Defense

  U.S. Department of Energy

  U.S. House of Representatives

  U.S. Marines

  U.S. Pentagon; Defense Science Board; Defense Threat Reduction Agency

  U.S. Senate

  U.S. Strategic Air Command

  USS Cole

  U
zbekistan

  Vandenberg, Arthur

  Veblen, Thorstein

  Vietnam, reactors in

  Vietnam War

  Viner, Jacob

  Voltaire

  Wagner, Richard

  war plans. See also Ultimate Emergency Plan

  We (Zamyatin)

  weapons of mass destruction

  Weimar Republic

  Weinberger, Casper

  West Berlin

  West Virginia

  Western Europe

  “Western” intellectuals

  “Western” society

  Whitehead, Alfred North

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig

  women, enfranchisement of

  Wood, Lowell

  World Bank

  World government

  World Trade Center

  World War I

  World War II; Allies

  World Wide Web

  The World Is Flat (Friedman)

  Wyden, Peter

  Yeltsin, Boris

  Yugoslavia

  Zamyatin, Yevgeniy

  Zhu Di, Emperor