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Terai Sumie: ‘White Nagasaki: A Haiku Sequence’ from White Flash/Black Rain: Women of Japan Revive the Bomb edited and translated by Lequita Vance-Watkins and Aratani Mariko (Milkweed Editions, 1995).

Eisaku Yoneda: ‘Standing in the Rains’ from Death in Life by Robert Jay Lifton (Touchstone, 1967).

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Index

393rd Bombardment Squadron 187, 193 509th Composite Group 165, 187-90

A-bomb see atomic bomb AAF (US Army Air Forces) 134-5 see also Eighth Air Force Academic Assistance Council 39 Acheson, Dean 249-50, 251, 258 Acheson—Lilienthal report 250 Advisory Committee on Uranium 85 AEB (Atomic Energy Board) 290 AEC (Atomic Energy Commission) 257, 296

Agricola, Georgius 60 air power 43—51, 263—4 Alamogordo test site, United States 159-61 alliance system 270 Allison, Samuel 300 Alsos mission 79-80 Alvarez, Luis 192-3, 257 America see United States American prisoners of war,

Hiroshima 201-2, 211 American University, Washington DC 17 Anami, Korechika Big Six 207

hardliner on war 180, 184 response to bomb 206 suicide 217

surrender terms 209, 212, 213, 215, 216 Anderson, Carl 237 Angola 292

Annushka (Little Anna; Soviet reactor) 245 Anscombe, Gertrude 301 anti-Japanese racism 141, 166, 168 anti-nuclear activity 302

Apsara research reactor (India) 297 Arakatsu, Bunsaku 65 Ardenne, Manfred von 75, 82 arms race 263-6 Arnold, Henry H. 151, 216 Arzamas-16, Soviet Union 246 Aston, F.W. 35

Atlas (long-range missile) 264 atom, structure of 9, 10, 70 atomic age, hopes for 96 atomic bomb

anxiety about 236 bomb project 94-6, 98 Cold War 247-55 compared to natural phenomena 231

complacency about 236 cost 66

decision to use 127-8, 154 detonation 119

discourse surrounding 2-5, 230 estimated effect of 123 Fat Man 119, 209-10 fissionable material 119 international reaction to 228-31 Little Boy 119, 122, 176, 187-90, 190-3

monopoly of by United States 248 possible bomb 91-4 radioactivity 122, 123-4 requirements for 65 research by non-citizens 38 scientists’ views on 29-30, 121, 123, 124-5, :48, 300 shapes 119

as symbol 253-4, 279 targets 147, 156, 157, 171 test 121, 158-61, 162, 163 uranium 113, 119

atomic bomb (cont.)

see also atomic bomb’s use; bomb tests; hydrogen bomb; nuclear weapons atomic bomb’s use 127—31, 166—72 alternatives 172 assumptions 170 Bohr on 148

decision to use 127—8, 154 doubters 148-51 Eisenhower on 128—9, :5:

Franck on 149—50 Groves on 148, 170 Interim Committee 152 Marshall on 151, 156 momentum towards use 170, 174 non-combat demonstration possibility 153, 172 postwar critics of 184, 227 Roosevelt on 152 Stimson on 129, 130, 155 —6, 169 Truman on 127—8, 157, 173, 174,

175

Wilson, Robert R. on 127 atomic diplomacy 155, 168 atomic energy

international control 249—50, 272 peaceful uses 234 Atomic Energy Board (AEB) 290 Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 257, 296

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes, see Smyth Report Atomic Energy Research Establishment 277 atomic physics 11 Atoms for Peace 273, 286, 289 Attlee, Clement 276, 277 Auger, Pierre 280, 281, 282, 283, 284

B-29 Superfortress bombers Europe 248

Hiroshima 187, 190, 191 Japan 141, 142 Nagasaki 209, 210 Tokyo 143 Baba, Masao 226 Bagge, Erich 69, 80 Bainbridge, Kenneth 89, 160, 161 Baldwin, Hanson W 227 Baldwin, Stanley 43

balloon bombs 186 Bard, Ralph 151, 152 Bartky, Walter 149 Baruch, Bernard 250—1 Baruch Plan 251 Beahan, Kermit 210 Becquerel, Henri 8 Ben-Gurion, David 286, 287 Berg, Moe 79

Beria, Lavrenti 242, 246, 261, 262 Berlin, Germany 248 Beser, Jake 192

Bethe, Hans 35, 116, 120, 121, 256—7,

300

Beveridge, Sir William 39 Bevin, Ernest 276, 277 Bhabha, Homi 296, 297, 298 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 299 Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali 299 big physics 94

Big Six (Supreme War Council) 209, 211—13, 216 Bikini atoll, South Pacific 251, 263 BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) 299 Blackett, PM.S. 35, 37, 301