附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 358-364) and indexes.
1. Prologue. 1.1. Fornebu airport, 12 March 1940 -- 2. Manchester and Paris, 1919. 2.1. Manchester: how it began. 2.2. Paris, and the Joliot-Curies -- 3. The Neutron. 3.1. Prelude to 1932: Chadwick and Bothe on the hunt. 3.2. A discovery narrowly missed, and the neutron at last -- 4. Heavy Water. 4.1. Deuterium: a comedy of errors. 4.2. Gilbert Lewis and Leif Tronstad: the promise of deuterium. 4.3. Birkeland and his gun; Eyde and Birkeland. 4.4. Tronstad and Norsk Hydro: an auspicious union -- 5. Artificial Radioactivity. 5.1. Another French miss, and triumph at last. 5.2. Rome: another discovery, and a discovery missed. 5.3. Meanwhile, back in Paris. 5.4. Escape, in the nick of time -- 6. Nuclear Fission. 6.1. Berlin: December 1938. 6.2. More neutrons? 6.3. Prospects for a chain reaction on the eve of war. 6.4. A moderator of choice -- 7. Heavy Water Revisited. 7.1. The Allier mission. 7.2. Attack on Norway. 7.3. The battle for Rjukan; Tronstad goes into action -- 8. The British Initiative. 8.1. Maud. 8.2. Broompark -- 9. German Army Ordnance Takes Charge. 9.1. The Uranium Club; a tritium episode. 9.2. A serious error. 9.3. Joliot's guests -- 10. Heavy Water Takes Center Stage. 10.1. Pressure on Norsk Hydro mounts. 10.2. SIS, SOE, and the Galtesund affair. 10.3. Mild sabotage; frank talk. 10.4. Exit Jomar Brun -- 11. America Joins the Quest. 11.1. Stirrings in the new world. 11.2. 'Graphite versus deuterium' once more. 11.3. North American heavy water in abundance -- 12. Action Vemork. 12.1. Germany's uranium machines: off to a promising start. 12.2. Freshman: an unqualified disaster. 12.3. Gunnerside: a qualified success -- 13. Neutrons Despite Bombs. 13.1. Aftermath at Vemork; neutrons in Berlin-Gottow. 13.2. The Americans strike -- 14. Wavering Outlook for Heavy Water. 14.1. Penultimate pile experiments. 14.2. The ferry. 14.3. Prospects for heavy-water production in Germany -- 15. Canada Enters the Race. 15.1. ZEEP -- 16. Fears and Facts on the Continent. 16
