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| Introduction | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Nine-Eleven | |
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| Inspecting Passengers | |
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| Taking Control | |
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| Flying and Navigating the Airplane | |
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| Impact | |
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| Terrorist Nukes | |
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| Big Nukes | |
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| The Terrorist Dirty Bomb | |
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| Rogue Nukes | |
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| Uranium Bombs | |
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| Plutonium Bombs | |
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| The Next Terrorist Attack | |
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| Future Airplane Gasoline Attacks | |
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| Bombs on Airplanes | |
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| Biological Terrorism | |
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| The Anthrax Attack | |
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| Terrorism: Presidential Summary | |
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| Energy | |
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| Key Energy Surprises | |
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| Why We Love Oil | |
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| Power | |
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| Energy Alternatives | |
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| The Bottom Line: The Cost of Energy | |
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| Solar Power | |
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| An Anecdote | |
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| Basic Facts | |
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| Solar Power Plants | |
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| Solar Airplanes | |
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| The End of Oil | |
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| Oil From Coal: Fischer-Tropsch | |
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| The Price of Oil | |
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| Energy: Presidential Summary | |
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| Nukes | |
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| Radioactivity and Death | |
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| Radiation and Cancer | |
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| The Linear Effect | |
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| The Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Disaster | |
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| The Linear Hypothesis | |
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| Radioactive Decay | |
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| Dangers of Short Versus Long Half-Lives | |
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| Environmental Radioactivity | |
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| Horrific Mutations | |
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| X-Rays and Microwaves | |
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| Is Radioactivity Contagious? | |
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| Nuclear Weapons | |
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| The Key to an Explosion: The Nuclear Chain Reaction | |
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| World War II and the Manhattan Project | |
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| Critical Mass-The First Atomic Secret | |
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| Hiroshima-The Simple Bomb Design | |
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| The Hard Part: Purifying Uranium-235 | |
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| Centrifuges | |
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| The Plutonium Bomb-An Implosion Design | |
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| The Hydrogen Bomb | |
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| Fallout | |
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| Big Bombs | |
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| Smaller Weapons, More Destruction | |
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| Nuclear Madness | |
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| The Neutron Bomb and the Weapons Paradox | |
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| Nuclear Proliferation | |
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| How Worried Should We Be? | |
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| Nukular Weapons | |
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| Nuclear Power | |
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| Can a Nuclear Reactor Explode Like an Atomic Bomb? | |
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| Manufacturing Plutonium | |
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| Fast Breeder Reactors | |
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| The China Syndrome | |
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| Three Mile Island-Fuel Meltdown | |
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| Chernobyl-A Runaway Chain Reaction | |
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| Pebble Bed Reactors | |
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| Nuclear Waste | |
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| My Confession | |
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| Plutonium | |
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| Depleted Uranium | |
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| Controlled Fusion | |
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| Tokamak | |
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| Laser Fusion | |
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| Cold Fusion | |
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| Nukes: Presidential Summary | |
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| Space | |
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| Space and Satellites | |
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| Satellite Orbits: LEO, GEO, and MEO | |
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| GPS: A Set of Medium-Earth-Orbit Satellites | |
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| Spy Satellites | |
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| Rocket Science | |
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| Gravity Applications | |
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| g's | |
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| Using Gravity to Search for Ice, Oil, Hidden Craters, and Secret Tunnels | |
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| Space Industry: Manufacturing in a Weightless Environment | |
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| Gravity on the Moon and Asteroids | |
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| Artificial Gravity | |
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| The X Prize | |
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| Humans in Space | |
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| Spying With Invisible Light | |
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| Infrared Radiation | |
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| Remote Sensing of the Earth | |
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| Military Special Ops | |
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| Stinger Missiles | |
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| Radar and Stealth | |
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| Radar Imaging | |
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| X-Ray Backscatter | |
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| Space: Presidential Summary | |
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| Global Warming | |
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| A Brief History of Climate | |
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| The Climate of the Past 14,000 Years | |
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| The Greenhouse Effect | |
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| Carbon Dioxide | |
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| Calculating Greenhouse Warming | |
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| Another Danger: Acid Oceans | |
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| The Ozone Hole | |
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| A Very Likely Cause | |
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| Doing Something About It: Alaska | |
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| Evidence | |
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| Distortion | |
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| Exaggeration | |
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| Cherry Picking | |
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| News Bias | |
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| The Hockey Stick | |
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| Carbon Dioxide and Ancient Climate | |
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| Science and Propaganda | |
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| Nonsolutions | |
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| Hydrogen Hype | |
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| Electric Automobiles | |
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| Fusion | |
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| Solar Power | |
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| Recycling | |
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| Kyoto | |
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| The Fruit on the Ground | |
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| Comfortable Conservation | |
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| Compact Fluorescent Lights | |
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| Cool Colors: When Brown Paint Is White | |
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| Reason for Optimism: Rosenfeld's Law | |
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| The Fizzling Population Bomb | |
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| Automobile Efficiency | |
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| New Technologies | |
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| Biofuels | |
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| Concentrating Solar | |
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| Safe Nukes | |
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| Clean Coal | |
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| Carbon Credits | |
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| Renewable Energy | |
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| Global Warming: Presidential Summary-The Buck Stops Here | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |