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CSIS president David M. Abshire for inviting me to join CSIS, and to the current president of CSIS, John J. Hamre, for his gratifying endorsement of my work and for having been so patient as my book kept creeping along. Thank you Dave and John.

At the terminus of the journey, to my delight, a new group of helpful supporters stepped forward—the highly professional team of Columbia University Press, my publisher. From the outset, Senior Executive Editor Peter Dimock was interested in the message of my manuscript and has cheerfully led me by the hand through every turnstile of the publication process. My profound thanks to you, Peter. And thanks to all the other superbly professional staff members of Columbia University Press.

As Samuel Johnson noted, “what is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” If you read this book without pleasure, dear reader, it is not that it was written without effort. Blame the grim message—not the messenger.

INDEX

9/11 attacks

ABM. See Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Abshire, David

Acheson, Dean

Acheson-Lilienthal report

Adams, Gerry

Afghanistan

Africa

Allen, Richard V.

Allison, Graham

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