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Bock’s Car 209, 210 Bogdanov, Alexander 237 Bohlen, Charles 162 Bohr, Niels
and Heisenberg 13, 70, 75 implications of nuclear research 43 scientific community 13, 272 Soviet Union 238 use ofbomb 148, 234 bomb see atomic bomb bomb tests Britain 279 China 294—5 France 285 India 298, 299 Pakistan 300 radioactivity 4, 263 Soviet Union 254, 255, 262, 263 United States 121, 158 —61, 162, 163, 251, 262, 263 bombing
of Germany 133 —7 of Japan 141—6
suffering from 122, 146 see also air power; bombing of civilians bombing of civilians 303, 305—6, 307 LeMay on 146-7 firebombings and atomic bombings 146 Hague conventions 50 Japan 186 legitimate 170—1 Le May on 146—7 Lilienthal on 147 Marshall on 141 objections to 173 poisonous gas 19 Roosevelt on 134 Truman on 147 bombing targets
atomic bomb 147, 156, 157, 171 Le May 146—7 planning 141 Truman 147, 157 bombs 53, 186, 188, 305—6
see also atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb Borden, William A. 174 Born, Max
bomb project 41 and Fuchs 40, 41 and Heisenberg 70 Institute of Theoretical Physics 36 and Oppenheimer 104 refugee 37 Bravo bomb test 263 Brewster, O.C. 150 Brezhnev, Leonid 291 Bridgman, Percy W. 29, 104 Briggs, Lyman 89—90 Brisset, Norman Roland 201, 202 Britain see Great Britain Brittain, Vera 173, 301 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 255, 269, 306—7
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward 33 Burchett, Wilfred 221, 301 Bush, Vannevar bomb project 98 bomb test 159, 160 Cold War 249 and Compton, A. 99 and Groves 108, 109 Interim Committee 123, 152
and Lawrence 99 MAUD Report 89 and Oliphant 90 and Roosevelt 94 Soviet bomb test 254 Byrnes, James F.
Cold War 249 Interim Committee 123, 152 Japanese surrender terms 213 and Molotov 232 Potsdam 162, 164—5 racist language 167 and Roosevelt 154 Soviet Union 169 and Szilard 149 and Truman 154—5 Byrnes Note 214—15
Cairncross, John 239 California Institute of Technology 26 Calutrons 113—14 Cambridge, England 35, 104 Campaign for a Nuclear Freeze 302
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament 302
Camus, Albert 302
Caron, Robert 192
Castro, Fidel 266—7
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge 35,
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Cavert, Samuel McCrea 128 CEA (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique) 284 censorship, Japanese occupation 223 Chadwick, James First World War 12 Montreal project 283 neutrons 10, 237 nuclear program 275, 277 and Rutherford 9 chain reactions 10, 73, 81 Chalk River, Canada 283 Chalmers, T.A. 40 Chamberlain, Neville 51 Chelyabinsk-40, Soviet Union 245, 246 Chemical Warfare Services 174 chemical weapons 21, 306 see also poisonous gas Chicago, Illinois 99—102, 282 China 186, 273—4, 292—5, 298
Chinese, Hiroshima 194 Churchill, Winston air power 48, 52 on bomb 230 Cold War 247 nuclear program 276 and Roosevelt 117, 118, 274 CIRUS reactor (India) 297 civilians see bombing of civilians Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford 38 Clayton, William 152 Cockcroft, John 35, 88, 277, 278, 283 Cold War 239, 247-55, 263-9 Coming Race, The (Bulwer-Lytton) 33 Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (CEA) 284 Committee Z of the National Security Council 258—9 Communists 23, 106—7 Compilation of Materials on Damage
Caused by the Atomic Bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 222 Compton, Arthur Holly and Bainbridge 89 bomb design 99 career 92 Chicago 99—100 and Franck 149 German bomb threat 97 and Groves 108, 109 hydrogen bomb 256, 257 and Lawrence and Conant 91 possible atomic bomb 93 radioactivity 123 response to bombs 234, 300 Compton, Karl 152 Conant, James bomb test 160 British visit 89 and Bush 99 career 91—2
hydrogen bomb 256, 257 Interim Committee 123, 152 international control of atomic energy 249 and Oliphant 90, 91 possible atomic bomb 93, 94 Soviet Union 252 conscience, abdication of 173, 175
control of nuclear weapons 148—9, 150
Cuban missile crisis 266—9
Curie, Irene (later Joliot-Curie) 43, 54,
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Curie, Marie 8, 21, 59, 61, 280 Curie, Pierre 8, 280 cyclotrons 102—3, 237
Dautry, Raoul 284 Davis, Garry 302
de Gaulle, Charles 230, 283, 284, 285, 286
De Klerk, F.W. 292
Desai, Moraji 299
detonation, atomic bomb 119
deuterium 255—6
deutsche physics 72
DeWitt,