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- Abernathy, Ralph, 232
- Abramson, Rudy, 237
- Adler Planetarium, Chicago, 2f, 253
- Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), 98, 102, 142, 158, 170, 172
- Aelita (A. Tolstoi), 40
- Aerojet Engineering Corporation, 76, 79
- Aerojet-General Corporation, 135
- Air Force Magazine, 133, 135, 141
- Air Force Space Command, 131
- Air University, 141
- Air University Quarterly, 172
- Aldiss, Brian, 150
- Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,” 223–24, 227, 230, 233, 238, 241
- Almond, Gabriel, 105
- Alsop, Stewart, 218
- Alter, Dinsmore, 149
- AMC, 72
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 161
- American Astronautical Society, 247
- American Interplanetary Society (AIS), 43, 45, 52, 54, 57
- American Machine and Foundry, Inc. (AMF), 146
- “American Moon” (song), 241
- American Physical Society, 161
- American Rocket Society (ARS), 52, 62
- Anders, Bill, 13–14, 227–28
- Anderson, Rudolf, 185
- Anglo-Peruvian Company, 21
- A.N.N.A. satellite, 116
- Antarctic Treaty, 110, 204, 206, 221, 250
- Anticipations (Wells), 26
- Apollo 1, 222
- Apollo 8, 4, 13–15, 227–28, 232, 252
- Apollo 11, 5, 147, 223–26, 229–32, 234, 238, 240–42, 249–51, 253
- Apollo 13, 243
- Apollo Service and Lunar Excursion Modules, 74–75
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, 219
- Arid Zone Program, 78
- Ariel I, 166
- Arlene Francis Show, 88, 91
- Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP), 159, 163
- Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), 155, 183, 186, 257
- arms race
- Armstrong, Neil, 223–24, 227, 230, 233, 238
- Army Air Forces (AAF), 72, 97, 141
- Arnold, Henry “Hap,” 76, 141
- Aron, Raymond, 48
- “Artificial Modification of the Earth's Radiation Belt” (Singer), 161
- Association of Inventors, 40
- Astounding Science Fiction, 133
- Astronautics (magazine), 138
- Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 97, 145, 158–59, 166
- Atoms for Peace Conference (1958), 89
- Auf Zwei Planeten. See Two Planets
- Aviation Incorporated, 135
- Aviation Week and Space Technology, 128, 145, 148
- Baldwin, Hanson, 62, 160–61
- Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), 173, 217f
- Baltimore Sun, 54, 88
- Ban on Bombs in Space (BBS), 191
- Bartlett, Paul V., 172
- Battle of Dorking, The (Chesney), 34
- Becker, Loftus E., 200
- Bellow, Saul, 237–38
- Bell Telephone, 72
- Bennett, Wallace F., 240
- Bethe, Hans, 96
- Biden, Joe, 261
- Binder, Otto, 130
- Black, Megan, 243
- Bloomfield, Lincoln P., 9, 106–7
- Blue Marble, 14–15
- Boeing, 72, 141, 257
- Bogdanov, Aleksandr, 14, 18–19, 35, 38
- Bohr, Niels, 53
- Bonestell, Chelsey, Jr., 130
- Borman, Frank, 13–14, 227–28
- Boston Globe, 228
- Boston Post, 30
- Boushey, Homer A., 134–35, 140, 142, 144–45, 191, 242, 261
- Bowles, Chester, 88
- Boyle, Hal, 62
- Bradley, Omar, 155
- Brands, Hal, 193
- Bridges, Styles, 102
- Brilliant Pebbles, 258–59
- Bristow, Frank, 171
- British Interplanetary Society (BIS), 54–55, 57–58, 60–61, 63, 68–69, 71, 73
- British Projectile Development Establishment, 77
- Brundage, Percival, 99
- Bryce, James, 45–46
- Buchheim, Robert, 170
- Buell, Raymond Leslie, 46
- Bulganin, Nikolai, 95, 103, 108, 185
- Bulletin (AIS), 43
- Bureau of Budget (BoB), 99–100
- Bush, George H. W., 259
- Caldicott, Helen, 193
- Calley, William, 234
- Carne, Judy, 241
- Carpenter, Scott, 178
- Carr, E. H., 47–48
- Carrying the Fire (Collins), 229
- Carson, Rachel, 179
- Carter, Jimmy and his administration, 256–57, 260
- Catholic Association for International Peace, 104
- CBS Evening News, 232
- Celestia (Nation of Celestial Space), 1–3, 56, 73–74, 252, 268n1
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 114, 159, 173, 178, 181, 183, 217
- Chaffee, Roger, 222
- Chelomei, Vladimir N., 174
- Chesney, George Tomkyns, 34
- Chicago Herald, 88
- Chicago Tribune, 213, 219
- China, 7, 240, 248, 260–62
- “choke point” or Panama hypothesis, 137–39, 261
- Christian Science Monitor, 88, 199f
- Christofilos, Nicholas, 157–62
- Church, Frank, 247–48
- Clarke, Arthur C.
- background of, 58
- BIS address, 60–61, 63
- ground-controlled approach (GCA) radar, 58
- interplanetary discourse and, 15, 57
- Interplanetary Project and, 175
- Lasser and, 64
- military strength and space, 65
- on moon bases, 149
- “morality of space,” 184, 253, 264–65
- nursery of human life, 80–81
- photograph of, 59f
- predictions of war, 62
- space exploration and peace, 16–17, 58–61, 73–74, 128, 249
- Stapledon and, 68
- symbolism of space, 265
- United States and, 73
- Clarke, Arthur C., publications
- Cleator, Philip Ellaby, 58
- Cleaver, Arthur “Val,” 55f, 56–57, 73, 175
- Cold War
- fears of future war, 5–6, 62, 73, 91–93
- “first” Cold War, 7
- military space spending, 7, 115, 147–48
- military technologies and, 125
- nuclear testing and, 163
- Outer Space Treaty (OST) and, 196, 221
- Second Cold War, 7, 261–64, 271n25
- space exploration and peace, 41–42, 51, 71, 85
- See also nuclear weapons; space race
- Cole, Dandridge, 133, 138
- Collier's, 62, 128–29
- Collins, Michael, 229–30, 233
- Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), 112–13, 123, 178, 191, 193, 205–7, 209–10, 219–20, 244
- “Common Sense of World Peace, The” (Wells), 30
- Conference on Discontinuance of Nuclear Weapons Tests, 162–63
- Conflict in Space (Golovine), 131, 135–36
- Conquest of Outer Space, The (Ley), 128
- Conquest of Space, The (Lasser), 44–45
- Convair, 72
- cooperative space projects, 191
- Cornils, Ingo, 32
- Corréa, Henrique Alvim, 23f
- cosmic philosophies, 39–40, 51, 54
- Cosmopolitan (magazine), 30
- Cosmos (Malina), 79
- Cousins, Norman, 92–93, 100, 104
- Cox, Donald, 105, 131
- Cultural and Scientific Congress for World Peace (1949), 73
- Darwinism, 21, 46, 60, 69
- Das Weltraum-Recht (The Law of Outer Space) (Mandl), 197–98
- Day, Dwayne, 125
- Dean, Patrick, 192f
- Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA), 159
- defensive systems
- antiballistic missile (ABM), 164, 193, 219, 256
- ballistic missile defense (BMD), 155, 257, 259
- FOBS and, 174
- NAVSTAR GPS, 260
- nuclear deterrence, 134, 163, 261
- Projects SMART and SLOMAR, 132
- research and development (R&D), 215, 257
- satellite interceptor (SAINT), 123, 132, 147
- satellite protection for area defense (SPAD), 132
- defensive systems, Air Force studies, 171
- Democratic party, 225–26
- Department of Defense (DoD), 88, 97, 99, 102–3, 115–16, 255, 260–61, 263
- See also military and space
- deSeversky, Alexander P., 133
- Dickinson, G. Lowes, 45
- Dickinson, William L., 218
- Die Rakete (The Rocket), 41, 51
- Die Rakete zu den Planetanraumen (The Rocket into Interplanetary Space) (Oberth), 36
- Die Starfield Company (Ley), 42
- Dillon, Clarence, 113
- Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E), 142
- disarmament and demilitarization of outer space, 4, 105, 108
- Dobrynin, Anatoly, 183, 192f, 196, 212, 216
- Dolman, Everett C., 194, 219, 263
- Dominic Nuclear tests, 166, 177–79
- Doolittle, James, 146
- Dooner, Pierton, 35
- Dornberger, Walter, 30, 50, 52, 130, 137
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 37
- Douglas Aircraft Company, 72, 169
- Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), 125, 145
- Dryden, Hugh, 242
- du Bois, W. E. B., 46–47
- DuBridge, Lee A., 96, 148–49
- Dulles, John Foster, 95, 108, 110, 115
- Earthrise, 13–15, 228f, 234, 252
- Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (movie), 127
- Edison's Conquest of Mars (Serviss), 30–31
- Edson, James B., 132, 134, 137
- Ed Sullivan Show, 241
- Effects of Nuclear Weapons (Glasstone), 162
- Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament (ENCD), 181, 212
- Einstein, Albert, 78
- Eisendrath, Craig, 193
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. and his administration
- ARPA created, 142, 158
- Bulganin and, 95, 103, 108
- demilitarization of outer space, 107, 264
- Killian and, 98–99
- McConnell and, 89, 91
- NASA and, 97, 102
- nuclear testing moratorium, 155, 159, 162–63, 185
- nuclear weapons and, 96, 153
- “Open Skies” proposal, 185
- Project Horizon and, 122
- satellite technology and, 114, 170
- Soviet Union and, 85
- space based weaponry and, 5
- on space exploration, 110–11
- space race and, 92
- Sputnik and, 94
- weaponization of space rejected, 140
- See also Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
- Electric, General, 72, 98, 133, 170
- Electric Spaceship, The (Oberth), 73
- Ervin, Sam, 88
- Etzioni, Amitai, 233
- European Anarchy, The (Dickinson), 45
- Evening Journal (New York), 30
- Evins, Joe, 240–41
- Experiment in Autobiography (Wells), 23
- Exploration of Space, The (Clarke), 51
- Explorer I, 138, 151, 198
- Explosives Act (1875), 55
- “Extra-Terrestrial Relays” (Clarke), 58
- Fallaci, Oriana, 237
- Farnsworth, R. L., 62–63, 66
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 79–80
- Fedorenko, Nikolai, 206, 208
- Fedorov, Nikolai Federovich, 37–38
- Fenley, Relf A., 172
- Ferguson, James, 235
- fiction, post Great War, 34–35
- “Final War, The” (Spohr), 42
- Finch, Edward R., 4
- First Men in the Moon, The (Wells), 14, 24, 25f, 26–27
- Fisher, Adrian, 183
- Forbidden Planet (movie), 127
- Ford, Gerald and his administration, 166, 254, 256
- Foreign Affairs, 261
- Forman, Ed, 74
- Fortune (magazine), 168
- Four-Power Disarmament Conference, 95
- Frankel, Max, 241
- Franklin, H. Bruce, 154
- Frau im Mond (Lang), 41
- Friendship 7, 231
- From the Earth to the Moon (Verne), 21, 36
- Fulbright, J. W., 210
- Furnas, C. C., 149
- G-20 Summit (2022), 261
- Gagarin, Yuri, 174, 178, 204, 223
- Gallup polls, 87, 233
- Garan, Ron, 229
- Garthoff, Raymond L., 181
- Gavin, James M., 104
- Geiss, Johannes, 224
- Geppert, Alexander, 227
- Germany, 40–41, 52–53, 197, 237–38
- Gernsback, Hugo, 42–43
- Gilpatric, Roswell, 182
- Glasstone, Samuel, 162
- Glenn, John, 178, 231
- Global Positioning System (GPS), 260–61, 263
- Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS), 259
- Global South, 5, 46, 196, 209–12, 220, 230, 236, 247–49
- Goddard, Robert, 30, 36, 40, 44, 52, 74, 76
- Goldberg, Arthur, 192f, 205–6, 212, 215
- Goldsen, Joseph M., 107
- Goldwater, Barry, 8, 247
- Goldwater conservatism, 167
- Golovine, M. N., 131, 134–35, 137, 171
- Goodyear, 72
- Gorbachev, Mikhail, 259
- Gore, Albert, 205
- Gorove, Stephen, 130
- Graham, Billy, 88
- Grant, Madison, 46
- Granville, Robert, 130
- Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon), 238
- Gray, Colin, 261
- Great War, 26–27, 47–48, 58
- Green, Harold, 181
- Grissom, Virgil “Gus,” 222
- Gromyko, Andrei, 183–84, 206–8
- Grotius, Hugo, 202
- Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory (GALCIT), 74, 76
- Haig, Alexander, 247–48
- Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, 166
- Haley, Andrew G., 195, 201–3
- Hammarskjold, Dag, 105, 109
- Harbou, Thea von, 41
- Harr, Karl G., 116
- Harris polls, 255
- Heavens and the Earth, The (McDougall), 6, 270n18
- Heinemann, William, 20
- Henson, Keith, 245
- Hersey, John, 61
- Herter, Christian, 108, 110, 113
- Herzfeld, Norma and Charles, 104
- Hill, Peter, 89, 92
- Hiroshima (Hersey), 61
- Ho Chi Minh, 234
- Hotline Agreement, 183, 194
- House Armed Services Committee, 143
- House Committee on Science and Aeronautics, 185
- House Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration, 170
- Hoyle, Fred, 179
- Hsue-Shen Tsien, 76
- Hughes Aircraft Company, 72
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 21–22, 26
- Hyman, William A., 203–4
- Hynek, Allen, 87
- Icaromenippus (Lucian), 24
- India, 7, 21, 112, 209–10, 260
- Influence of Sea Power upon History, The (Mahan), 137–38
- “Influence of Space Power upon History, The” (Gray), 261
- Institute for Aeronautical Sciences, 98–99
- Inter-American Bar Association, 203
- intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
- building better missiles, 104
- countermeasures and deterrence, 186
- detection and destruction of, 259
- disarmament and, 108, 115
- electronic components in, 160
- FOBS and, 217
- manned satellite cost comparison, 172
- new insights for, 54
- nuclear-armed bombardment satellites (NABS), 171
- plasma shields and, 158
- Positive Control Bombardment System, 131
- R-7 Semyorka, 151
- Random Barrage System (RBS), 132
- Russian R-7 missile, 82
- science discovery of, 65
- Soviet Union and, 83, 94, 165
- Soviet Union and FOBS, 173–74
- Space Defense program and, 256
- submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), 129, 216, 218
- targets for, 148
- tracking satellites and, 136
- X-20 Dyna-soar and, 141
- International Geophysical Year (IGY), 85, 92, 109, 112–13, 158–60
- International Interplanetary Commission, 45
- international law, 204
- See also Antarctic Treaty
- International Organization (Bloomfield), 106
- International Relations (Buell), 46
- international relations (IR)
- Apollo 11 view of earth and, 229
- Huxley's ideas on, 26
- international peace, 51, 56
- “Interplanetary School,” 17–18, 47–48, 51, 72–73, 249
- Machiavellianism, 45–46
- outer space as an escape, 19–20
- pessimism for peace, 7
- sanctuary paradigm and, 9
- science exploration and peace, 65
- space exploration and peace, 47, 55–56, 65, 201
- space exploration impact, 44–45
- “strategic restraint,” 253
- United States space policy, 108
- World War I and, 45, 47
- International Space Station, 263
- Interplanetary Project, 57, 175, 251
- In the Days of the Comet (Wells), 27, 28f, 29–30, 36, 81
- In the Fourth Year (Wells), 27
- Invaders from Mars (movie), 127
- Invasion of New York, The (Palmer), 35
- Invisible Man, The (Wells), 20
- Island of Dr. Moreau, The (Wells), 20, 22, 24
- It! The Terror from Outer Space (movie), 127
- Izvestiya, 40, 161
- Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 88, 144
- JAG Journal, 200
- Javits, Jacob, 247–48
- Jessup, Philip C., 198
- jet-assisted takeoff (JATO), 76–77
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 75f, 76–78, 98, 141, 159, 186, 242
- Johnson, John A., 200
- Johnson, Lyndon B. and his administration, 123, 150, 192f, 206, 212, 218, 253
- See also Vietnam war
- Johnson, Lyndon B. (senator), 4, 98, 111, 112f, 140, 184
- Johnson, Roy, 98, 170, 172, 175
- Johnson, S. Paul, 99, 102, 123
- Johnson, Stephen, 125
- Johnson, U. Alexis, 240
- Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), 215
- Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 72
- Kant, Immanuel, 201
- Kash, Donald, 7
- Kaysen, Carl, 177
- Keating, Kenneth, 100–101
- Kecskemeti, Paul, 106
- Keeny, Spurgeon, 218
- Kennedy, John F. and his administration, 5, 9, 89, 123, 135, 140, 147, 175–77, 180–85, 241, 250, 264
- Kennedy, Paul, 209
- Khariton, Yuri, 164
- Khrushchev, Nikita
- Khrushchev, Sergei, 164
- Killian, James R., 85, 96, 98–99, 157–58, 160
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 225
- Kissinger, Henry, 166
- Kistiakowsky, George, 98
- Knorr, Klauss, 137
- Komarov, Vladimir, 223
- Korolev, Sergei, 30, 173–74
- Krasovskiy, V. I., 161
- Kubrick, Stanley, 145, 228
- L-5 Society, 246–47
- Lang, Fritz, 41
- Lasser, David, 14–15, 43, 44f, 47, 50, 52, 57, 64, 80, 195
- Lasswitz, Kurd, 31, 32f, 33–35, 39, 42, 45, 65, 67
- Last Days of the Republic (Dooner), 35
- Laude, Emil, 197
- Launius, Roger, 232
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 157–58, 258
- Leary, Timothy, 247
- Lederberg, Joshua, 214
- LeMay, Curtis, 140, 170
- Lewis, C. S., 63–64, 68
- Lewis, Flora, 233
- Lewis, Richard, 225
- Ley, Willy, 41–42, 52, 73, 80, 128, 130–31
- Liberia, 211
- Lichtheim, George, 233
- Life (magazine), 1, 128, 156, 168, 226, 255
- Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT) (1963), 147, 155, 175–77, 180–84, 186, 191, 194, 204, 216
- Lindsay, Malvina, 93–94, 100, 115
- Lipp, James, 169
- Lipp, Ralph E., 173
- Lodge, Henry Cabot, 86, 95, 104, 109–11, 113
- Loewy, Raymond, 90–91, 106
- London, Jack, 35
- Look (magazine), 228
- Los Angeles Times, 171, 224, 233
- Lovecraft, H. P., 68
- Lovell, Bernard, 162, 179
- Lovell, James, 13–14, 227
- Lucas, George, 150
- Lucky Dragon incident, 162
- Luna 10, 222
- Luna I, 198
- Luna II, 239
- Luna IX, 205
- Lupton, David, 261
- Mackenzie, Jeanne and Norman, 22
- Mackinder, Halford, 45, 124, 130
- MacLeish, Archibald, 13, 232
- Macmillan, Harold, 159, 166
- Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 124, 137–39, 261
- Mailer, Norman, 231, 237
- Major Inapak the Space Ace (movie), 127
- “Make Our Satellite a Symbol of Hope!” (McConnell), 83–84
- Malina, Frank Joseph, 74–75, 75f, 76–80
- Mandl, Vladimir, 197–98
- Mangan, James T., 1, 2f, 3, 5–6, 9, 51, 56, 73–74, 252–53, 265
- Manhattan Project, 53, 122, 173
- Man into Space (Oberth), 41
- manned spaceflight, 74, 111, 142, 210, 242, 254
- Mars Project (von Braun), 50
- Martin Company, 72, 135, 248
- Martin-Marietta, 243
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 43, 96, 106, 146
- McCarthy, Eugene, 214–15, 220
- McConnell, John, 83–84, 88–92, 94, 100, 104, 106–7, 116, 221
- McCormack, John, 100–102
- McCray, W. Patrick, 79
- McDonnell Aircraft, 72
- McDougall, Walter, 6–7, 9, 194
- McElroy, Neil, 98, 158
- McNamara, Robert, 147, 166, 217, 217f, 218–19
- Mead, Margaret, 144
- Meinel, Carolyn, 245
- Menter, Martin, 238
- Michael, Donald N., 87
- Michel, Robert, 240–41
- military and space
- Moltz, James Clay, 253
- Mongolia, 210
- Moon Car, The (Oberth), 73
- moon exploration
- Apollo Lunar Surface Drill (ALSD), 243
- claim to territory, 250
- Earthrise, 228f
- lunar mining interest, 242–44, 249–50
- Luna X, 205
- moon landing, 227–29
- national flag raising, 238–42
- politics, military and, 237, 249
- program cost and domestic needs, 232–34
- Surveyor 1, 205
- symbolic act of, 248–49
- Tranquility Base, 224, 227, 250, 252
- Moon Treaty (1979), 196, 244–48
- Morgenthau, Hans, 48
- Morozov, Platon, 178
- Mr. Sammler's Planet (Bellow), 237–38
- Mumford, Lewis, 61
- Munro, Leslie, 108–9
- Murrow, Edward R., 62
- mutually assured destruction (MAD), 257
- National Academy of Science Committee on Air Corp Research, 75–76
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 97, 158
- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), 97, 99–102, 225
- National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, 102–3, 169, 172, 236
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Air-Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector (ADSID), 236
- Apollo 11 “Giantstep” tour, 230–31
- Apollo Lunar Surface Drill (ALSD) and, 243
- Apollo Paradox, 237
- Apollo program budget, 232
- Apollo spacecraft, 135, 224
- Applications Technology Satellite (ATS), 235
- budget cutbacks, 255
- Chinese competition, 262
- civilian or military, 5, 8, 97–101, 114, 141, 191
- Committee on Symbolic Activities for the First Lunar Landing, 239
- Department of Defense and, 123
- Earthrise photo and, 228
- in fiction, 127
- FOBS and, 218
- imperialism charge, 238, 242
- legislation for, 102
- “Limited Warfare Committee,” 235
- lunar flag raising, 225–26, 241
- Lunar Module (LM), 223, 239–40
- lunar resources and, 244
- A.N.N.A. satellite, 116
- peaceful uses of outer space and, 85, 103, 114, 227
- planning after moon landing, 254
- Project Argus, 160
- religion and, 91
- satellite overflight question, 200
- Starfish radiation issue, 166
- technology usefulness, 249
- Vietnam war and, 234–37
- WAC Corporal Rocket, 75f
- Working Group on Extraterrestrial Resources (WGER), 242–43
- See also National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), 62, 173
- National Science Foundation (NSF), 97
- National Security Council (NSC), 94, 108–9, 116, 123, 129, 169, 216, 218
- National Space Act (1958), 108, 169, 172
- Nature (magazine), 128
- Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), 98, 141
- Navigation Signal Timing and Ranging (NAVSTAR), 260
- Nelson, Bill, 262
- Nervo, Padilla, 184
- Neufeld, Michael, 40
- Newsweek, 161
- New Times (newspaper), 178
- New World of Islam,The (Stoddard), 46
- New Worlds for Old (Wells), 26
- New Yorker, 50, 61
- New York Herald Tribune, 88, 90
- New York Times
- Next War, The (Wallace), 35
- Nicholas II (tsar), 18
- Nixon, Richard, 98, 224–27, 229–30, 232, 234, 238, 249, 255
- Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty(NPT), 193–94, 212
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 7, 138, 174, 204, 263
- Northrop Space Laboratories, 243
- Northrup, 72
- Nuclear Science and Engineering Corporation, 145
- nuclear weapons
- arms race, 164, 199
- Astron, 157
- Bikini Atoll nuclear test, 162
- Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), 7–8, 155, 173–75, 196, 216–19, 221, 255
- IRBMs, 160, 186, 256
- moratorium on, 155, 159, 163–64, 167–68, 185–86
- nuclear tests in space, 156–57
- Project Argus, 159–62, 164, 166, 177
- Soviet threat, 166–67, 183
- Starfish Prime, nuclear test, 156–57, 165–66, 177–80
- UN prohibition in outer space, 205
- See also Limited Test Ban Treaty
- Oberth, Hermann, 15, 30, 36, 40–44, 73
- Ogle, Dan C., 145
- O’Neill, Gerard K., 245
- On the Beach (Shute), 162
- On the Origin of the Species (Darwin), 21
- “On the Possibility of Establishing a Plasma Shield” (Christofilos), 158
- Opel, Fritz von, 41
- Operation Desert Storm, 260–61
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 96
- Orwell, George, 30, 51
- Outer Space (Bloomfield), 107
- Outer Space Treaty (OST), 200
- approval and skepticism, 193–94, 209, 212, 213f, 214
- compromise of, 197
- developing world and, 210
- draft issues, 206–8, 220
- importance of, 196, 219–22
- inspection provision, 207, 214–16
- military viewpoint of, 215–16, 255
- moon claims and, 238, 241
- moon landing and, 239
- moon resources and, 250
- Moon Treaty (1979) and, 246
- ratification of, 140, 193, 214–16
- space sanctuary and, 194–95, 215, 253
- space war and, 123, 125
- State Department and, 244
- tracking facilities and, 207–9
- Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, 192
- UNGA resolutions in, 204
- United Nations and, 8, 86, 193, 212
- violations of, 218
- White House ceremony, 192f
- Outline of the History of the Rocket (Ley), 42
- Paine, Thomas O., 232, 239–40
- Parsons, John “Jack,” 30, 74
- Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 46
- Paul VI (pope), 204, 224
- Pearson's Magazine, 20
- Pendray, G. Edward, 43
- Perel’man, Yakov Isidorovich, 39
- Perry, William J., 260
- Philosophy of the Common Task, The (Filosofiia obshchego dela) (Fedorov), 37
- “Pilot Lights of the Apocalypse” (Ridenour), 168
- Pinto, M. C. W., 246
- Pius XII (pope), 82
- Pokrovsky, Georgi, 178
- political realism, 18, 47
- Post-Cuba Negotiations with the USSR, 183–84
- Power, Thomas S., 136, 242
- Powers, Francis Gary, 185
- Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship, 169
- President's Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC), 96, 98, 100, 146, 158, 169
- Project Apollo, 237, 249, 255
- Project Argus, 159–62, 164, 166, 177
- Project Excalibur, 258
- Protazanov, Yakov, 40
- Putin, Vladimir, 262
- Putt, Donald, 140, 142, 146, 170, 174
- Pynchon, Thomas, Jr., 9, 238
- Quarles, Donald, 170
- Rabi, I. I., 96
- race relations, 46–47
- radiation pollution, 157, 159–60, 162, 166, 177
- Radio Moscow, 174
- RAF Quarterly, 59
- Ramo, Simon, 149
- RAND (Research and Development Corporation), 94, 107, 169–70, 186, 242
- Rapacki, Adam, 204
- Ratiner, Leigh, 246
- Reagan, Ronald and his administration, 125, 194, 221, 247–48, 256–60
- red-fuming nitric acid (RFNA), 75, 77
- Red Star (Bogdanov), 14, 18–19
- Republican party (GOP), 98
- Revolt against Civilization (Stoddard), 46
- Rhodes, Cecil, 271n30
- Richardson, Robert S., 129–30, 133
- Ridenour, Louis, 168–69
- Rigg, Robert B., 135
- Rising Tide of Color, The (Stoddard), 46
- Ritland, Osmond J., 131
- Ritner, Peter, 139, 149–50
- Roberts, Walter Orr, 229
- Rockefeller, Nelson, 99
- “Rocket and the Next War, The” (Lasser), 43–44
- Rocket Research Project, 74
- Roddenberry, Gene, 150, 202
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 88
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 138, 238
- Rostow, Eugene, 257
- Rostow, Walt, 183
- Roudeboush, Richard, 240
- Rumsfeld, Donald, 254
- Rusk, Dean, 177, 181, 192f, 207, 212, 215, 233, 239
- Russia, 18–19, 37–39, 262–63
- See also Soviet Union
- Rynin, Nikolai, 39
- Sagan, Carl, 153, 224–25
- Sakharov, Andrei, 164
- SALT. See Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty
- sanctuary doctrine, 86, 144, 147
- Saturday Evening Post, 218
- Saturday Review, 61, 92, 139, 150
- Saturn V, 226, 232, 239
- Saund, Dalip Singh, 101
- Schelling, Thomas, 137, 171–72
- Schirra, Willy, 177
- Schlafly, Phyllis, 166–67
- Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 253
- Schmidt, R. L., 243
- Schmitt, Carl, 48
- Schofield, Martin B., 104
- Schriever, Bernard, 140, 142–44, 146–47, 191, 261
- science fiction and science writing
- casual mechanism of, 16
- early space novels, 34–36
- early space travel science, 36, 38–41
- future war stories comparison, 34–35
- “gravity well” and, 133–34, 139
- interplanetary fiction, 14–15, 19, 41
- military and space, 123–24, 150–51
- moral arguments of, 15–16, 36, 41, 80–81
- peaceful uses of outer space and, 48, 85
- space war depictions, 127–28, 130
- See also Bogdanov, Aleksandr; Clarke, Arthur C.; Lasser, David; Stapledon, William Olaf; Wells, Herbert George
- Scott, W. Kerr, 88
- Scott-Heron, Gil, 226
- Seaborg, Glenn T., 89
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 215, 221, 246, 248
- “Sense and Satellites” (Cousins), 104
- Serviss, Garrett, 31
- Seventh International Congress of Astronautics, 82
- Shafer, Raymond, 226
- Shapley, Willis, 239
- Sheffield, Charles, 247
- Shepherd, Alan, 231
- Shiel, M. P., 35
- Shklovskiy, I. S., 161
- Shute, Nevil, 162
- Silent Spring (Carson), 179
- Singer, S. Fred, 90–91, 106, 161
- Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), 237
- Society for Space Travel(Verein fur Raumschiffahrt) (VfR), 40–42, 50–51, 54
- Society for the Study of Interplanetary Communications (OIMS), 40, 54
- Sonnengewehr (Sun Gun), 168
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 232
- Soviet Union
- air law conference (1926), 197
- antisatellite (ASAT) testing, 255–56
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 156, 165, 167, 183, 185
- Eisenhower and, 107–8
- Experimental Design Bureau (OKB), 174
- FOBS and, 173–74, 217–19
- Globalnaya Raketa-1 (Global Rocket 1, or GR-1), 173
- Laika, dog orbited, 198
- military and space, 124, 129, 142–43
- Ministry of Medium Machine Building, 164
- nuclear testing and moratorium, 163–64
- Outer Space Treaty (OST) and, 206–7, 212, 214, 218–19
- political collapse of, 259–60
- R&D laser studies, 259
- “Soviet World Domination under Preparation,” 143f
- space travel and, 52, 122, 151
- System K, 164–65
- “Tsar Bomba” blast, 163–64
- UN proposal, 111–12
- view of NASA, 103
- Vostok program, 174
- space boosters, 128, 131, 139, 242, 245
- space diplomacy, 230–32
- space exploration
- space for peace
- Space Frontier (von Braun), 128
- space law, 86, 105, 109, 130, 193–98, 200–204
- Space Law and Government (Haley), 201
- Space Man, 128
- Space Opera (Aldiss), 150
- Spacepower (Cox, Stoiko), 105
- space race (1957-1969), 9, 84, 86–87, 90, 92, 114–15, 198
- space sanctuary
- space warfare
- American Artemis Program, 262
- civilian casualties and, 136–37
- Cold War and, 151
- depictions of, 124, 127–31
- Desert Storm and, 261
- failure of, 146–50
- First Gulf War as, 260
- military and civilian disagreement, 183
- military study of, 125–26, 153
- options of, 263–64
- orbital bombardment, 129–30
- Outer Space Treaty (OST), 192
- programs cancelled, 147
- security and insecurity, 152
- UN proposal, 111
- USAF and, 140
- US Space Force, 263
- See also military and space
- Space warfare, 128
- Space World, 128, 130–31, 149
- Spohr, Carl, 42
- Sputnik
- Spykman, Nicholas, 124, 130
- spy satellites, 114, 125, 147–48, 183–85, 214
- Stapledon, William Olaf, 57, 67–71, 69f, 70–73, 80–82, 195, 253
- Stapledon, William Olaf, publications
- Stares, Paul, 175
- Star of Goodwill, 90
- Star of Hope, 84, 88, 89f, 90–92, 104, 107, 116, 284n18
- Star Trek (Roddenberry), 150, 202
- Star Wars (Lucas), 150
- Stevenson, Adlai, 88, 184
- Stillson, Albert C., 133–34
- Stine, G. Harry, 133, 139
- Stoddard, T. Lothrop, 46
- Stoiko, Michael, 105, 131
- Stolley, Dick, 156
- Strand Magazine, The, 24
- Strategic Air Command (SAC), 136, 144
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks/Treaty, 193, 255–56
- Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO), 258–59
- Strike from Space (Schlafly), 166–67
- “Study of Lunar Research Flights, A, ” 153, 175
- Stump, Dean, 252
- Subcommittee on National Security and Scientific Developments hearing, 100–102
- Suicide Squad, 75, 77
- Sullivan, Walter, 160–61
- Sulzberger, C. L., 242
- Teller, Edward, 163, 258
- Tereshkova, Valentina, 186
- Thant, U, 179, 229–30
- Thurmond, Strom, 216
- Time (magazine), 61, 71, 128, 158
- Time Machine, The (Wells), 20, 22
- Times of India, 233, 253
- Titov, Gherman, 174, 178
- Today Show, 88
- Toe Valley Review, 83, 92
- Tolkien, J. R. R., 63
- Tolstoi, Aleksey, 40
- Tolstoy, Leo, 37
- Toynbee, Arnold J., 233
- True History (Lucian), 24
- Truman, Harry S., 96
- Trump, Donald, 7, 263
- Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 15, 17, 30, 36, 38–40, 47, 50, 80, 221
- Tsukov, Yuri K., 165
- Tubman, William V. S., 211
- Turner, Frederick Jackson, 45, 63
- Twenty Years’ Crisis, The (Carr), 47
- Twining, Nathan, 140
- Two Planets (Auf zwei Planeten) (Lasswitz), 31–36, 39, 42, 253
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film) (Kubrick), 228
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. See Soviet Union
- United Arab Republic (UAR), 112, 210
- United Kingdom, Explosives Act (1875), 55
- United Nations (UN)
- arms control and, 86
- ban on weapons in space, 105, 155, 175
- Declaration of Legal Principles, 187
- Disarmament Committees, 176
- founding of, 51
- Moon Treaty (1979) and, 245
- nuclear weapons and, 59–60
- role in outer space, 104–7, 109–13, 115–16, 131, 144
- UN Declaration of Legal Principles, 221
- wealth disparity issues, 209
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 246, 250
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 78–79
- United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
- cultural and economic exchange programs, 105
- disarmament and demilitarization of outer space, 181
- Kennedy address, 175–76
- Lyndon Johnson and, 111, 112f, 123
- moon treaty and, 205, 248
- negative law resolutions and outer space, 204–5
- “nuclear free zone” in Central and Eastern Europe, 204
- Outer Space Treaty (OST), 193, 206, 212, 215, 219
- Space committee, 110
- space exploration resolutions, 8
- “Stationing Weapons of Mass Destruction in Outer Space,” 184–85
- test ban resolutions, 109, 176, 184, 186, 191
- world peace and, 85
- United States, 53–54, 71–72, 108–9, 116, 145–47, 155, 260
- United States Bureau of Mines (USBM), 242–43
- United States Information Agency (USIA), 115, 231
- United States Space Force (USSF), 263
- United Technologies Corporation, 247
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 51
- “Unparalleled Invasion, The” (London), 35
- U. S. Air Force (USAF)
- Air-Delivered Seismic Intrusion Detector (ADSID), 236
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 135
- ASAT countermeasures and, 143, 256
- Ballistic Missiles Division, 125, 170
- China and, 262
- Directorate of Advanced Technology, 140, 145
- Dyna-Soar program, 7–8, 123, 141, 147
- Kennedy's moon landing pledge, 135
- lunar military base idea, 134
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), 7–8, 123, 147, 216, 255
- manned satellite bombers, 172
- military and space, 124, 126, 140–41
- military space spending, 148, 151, 214
- miniature homing vehicle (MHV), 256
- nuclear explosion on moon, 153–54
- nuclear weapons and, 175
- Project Orion, 145
- research and development (R&D) at, 145
- satellite technology and, 170–71
- Soviet competition and, 142–44
- Space Command (1982), 257
- Systems Requirements (SR) studies, 125
- X-series aircraft, 141
- U. S. Army
- US Disarmament Administration, 175
- US National Defense Research Committee, 76
- U. S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, 72
- U. S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance, 72
- US Rocket Society, 62
- U. S. State Department, 200
- Bloomfield and, 106
- Committee of Principals, 175
- Giantstep tour and, 230
- lunar interests, 226
- Malina's passport, 79
- manned lunar landing and, 205
- National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) and, 62
- National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM), 180
- nuclear weapons ban and, 183
- Outer Space Treaty (OST), 208, 215, 217, 244
- public diplomacy and, 231
- sanctuary doctrine and, 144
- Soviet proposal for demilitarization, 108–10
- space law and, 247
- Valier, Max, 40–41
- Van Allen, James, 158–61, 264
- Van Allen belts, 138, 158, 161, 165–66, 179, 198
- Vance, Cyrus, 216, 247
- Verne, Jules, 21, 36, 38, 58, 74
- Vietnam war, 8, 167, 193, 208, 212, 226, 234–36, 238, 249, 255
- Vitalis, Robert, 46
- Vitoria, Francisco de, 201–2
- von Braun, Wernher, 30, 33, 50, 52, 73, 79–80, 88, 128–29, 148, 237
- von Kármán, Theodore von, 74, 77, 141
- Vonnegut, Kurt, 232, 237
- Vorwarts (Social Democratic Party), 42
- Vought company, 257
- Wald, George, 237
- Waldheim, Kurt, 206
- Wallace, King, 35
- Wall Street Journal, 212
- Wang, Zuoyue, 96
- War and Peace in the Space Age (Gavin), 104
- War and the Future (Wells), 26
- Ward, Chester, 145, 166–67, 200
- “War in Space” (CNN documentary), 263
- War in the Air, The (Wells), 26
- War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 20–22, 23f, 24, 26, 30–31, 35, 130, 249, 253
- War of the Worlds, The (Wells) (movie), 127
- War That Will End War, The (Wells), 27
- Washington Post, 88, 93, 212, 236, 243
- weapons
- antisatellite (ASAT), 7–8, 97, 136, 147, 155, 166
- cis-lunar space and, 124, 133, 138–39
- delayed impact space missiles (DISMs), 131
- military technologies and space, 132–33
- multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles (MIRV), 155
- nuclear-armed bombardment satellites (NABS), 123, 131–32, 136, 154–55, 167, 170, 172–75, 184
- nuclear weapons, 53–54, 59–60, 72, 78, 138, 154–55
- orbital space weapons, 131
- satellite technology and, 168–70
- technology report to LBJ, 150
- V-2 rocket, 49–54, 57–58, 72, 77, 81
- See also defensive systems; intercontinental ballistic missile; nuclear weapons
- weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 111, 181, 184, 205
- Webb, James, 235–36
- Wells, Herbert George (H. G.)
- Clarke and, 67
- dystopia of, 249
- fascination with outer space, 23–24
- influence of, 30, 35, 50, 58
- multiple aspects of, 20
- opening of the space age, 15
- political worldview of, 26–27, 29–30, 45, 264
- socialism of, 80, 221
- United States and, 73
- violence of outer space, 21–22
- War That Will End War, The, 27
- World War I and, 47
- Wells, Herbert George (H. G.) publications
- Western Development Division, 140
- Westinghouse Company, 135, 243
- Wheeler, Earle “Bus,” 215–16, 221
- White, Ed, 222
- White, Frank, 14, 229
- White, Thomas D., 136, 140–41, 172, 191, 261
- Wiesner, Jerome, 175
- Williams, William Appleman, 248
- Winkler, Johannes, 40
- Wireless World, 58
- without altitude control (WAC), 75, 77–78, 80
- Women's Prayer Crusade for World Order and Peace, 87
- Wonder Stories, 42–43
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), 43
- world government, 26, 56, 93, 106
- World Set Free, The (Wells), 27
- World War II, German ballistic missiles, 50–51
- Wright, Stetler, 284n18
- Wylie, Philip, 62