Weinberger, Jane, 116, 119
Welch, C. David, 305–06
Weld, William, 207
Western Pacific Railroad, 22, 29
Western States Legal Foundation, 263
Wheeless, Charlene, 307
Wiesel, Elie, 300
Wiley, Peter, 33, 42, 89, 136, 145
Wiley, Richard, 315
Williams-Mello, Trish, 270
Wise, David, 78
Woolsey, R. James, 300, 301
World Bank, 112, 222, 226, 308
World Energy Conference, Detroit (1974), 113
“World Free of Nuclear Weapons, A” (Wall Street Journal editorial), 277
World Nuclear Association, 261
World Trade Center, New York City, September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on, 3, 228, 229, 256, 231, 272
World War I, 46, 47, 55, 61, 113, 117
World War II, 5, 47–48, 50–52, 53, 56, 68, 92, 111, 132, 163, 164, 174
Y-12 National Security Complex, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 256, 271, 272, 295
Yakutsk natural gas pipeline, Soviet Union, 110–11
Yanbu project, Saudi Arabia, 127
Yates, Perry, 93
Yemen, 63
Yosemite National Park, California, 25
Zucatur, count, 43–44
Zwicker, Heather, 24
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