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Preface to the Sloan Technology Series
Prologue: Deliveries

Part One
A Choice Between Worlds

1. 'A Smell of Nuclear Powder'
2. Diffusion
3. 'Material of Immense Value'
4. A Russian Connection
5. 'Super Lend-Lease'
6. Rendezvous
7. 'Mass Production'
8. Explosions
9. 'Provide the Bomb'
10. A Pretty Good Description

Part Two
New Weapons Added to the Arsenals

11. Transitions
12. Peculiar Sovereignties
13. Changing History
14. F-1
15. Modus Vivendi
16. Sailing Near the Wind
17. Getting Down to Business
18. 'This Buck Rogers Universe'
19. First Lightning
20. 'Gung-ho for the Super'

Part Three
Scorpions in a Bottle

21. Fresh Horrors
22. Lessons of Limited War
23. Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors
24. Mike
25. Powers of Retaliation
26. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
27. Scorpions in a Bottle

Epilogue: 'The Gradual Removal of Prejudices'

Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary of Names
Bibliography
Index