1. The original edition is H. G. Wells, The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind, Macmillan and Company Limited, St. Martin’s Street, London, 1914.
2. For an excellent, comprehensive treatment of the history of the Manhattan Project, including the timeline and the participants, please see F. S. Gosling, The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb, January 1999 originally published by the History Division, Department of Energy.
http://www.atomi-carchive.com
/History/mp/index.shtml.
3. Cf. Amory R. Lovins, “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?” Foreign Affairs, October 1976.
4. . Vincent Canby, The China Syndrome (1979) Film: “Nuclear Plant Is Villain in China Syndrome: A Question of Ethics,” Review, New York Times, March 16, 1979.
5. For an account of the direction and detection of the plume released from Chernobyl, see Michel Pourchet, “The Northingly Extent of Chernobyl Contamination,” Nature, vol. 323, no. 6090, p. 676, 1986.