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Diebner, Kurt 69, 74, 76, 80, 82

Dimona, Israel 286, 287

Doomsday Clock 255, 269, 306—7

doubters, use of bomb 148—51

Douhet, Giulio 47

Downfall (invasion of Japan plan)

185—7

Dresden, Germany 136—7 Du Pont, Hanford site 115 Dudley, John H. 111 Dulles, John Foster 293 Dunning, John 99

Edgewood Arsenal 17 Edison, Thomas 25

‘Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The’ 221 Eighth Air Force 135, 136—7 Einstein, Albert Berlin 33 cult round 26

implications of nuclear research 43 response to bombs 234, 300 and Szilard 84, 97 United States 37 Eisenhower, Dwight D. 128—9, :5:, 248, 264, 273, 293 electrons 8, 9 Elsey, George 174

Eniewetok atoll, Marshall Islands 251, 262

Enola Gay 1, 190, 191

Enormoz (Soviet spying project) 240

Esau, Abraham 74

Eshkol, Levi 288, 289

ethics

battlefield gas 18-21 scientists 27—30 war 168, 170—1, 173

Farrell, Thomas F. 160, 189, 191, 220,

221

Fat Man (atomic bomb) 119, 209—10 Feather, Norman 35 Feldberg, Wilhelm 37 Ferebee, Thomas 189, 192 Fermi, Enrico

Ann Arbor 34, 71 bomb test 159, 160 Chicago 100 on Compton, A. 92 fission 83

hydrogen bomb (superweapon) 255—6, 257

Interim Committee’s Scientific Panel 152 Los Alamos 116—17 Manhattan Project 35 nuclear reactor 99, 100—2 and Oliphant 91 radioactivity as weapon 125 response to bombs 234 skepticism regarding bomb 83 and Szilard 102 uranium 54 Feynman, Richard 117, 120, 159, 160 firebombing 145—6 First World War 14—17, 43—7 fission

discovered 10, 54—5, 73, 237 Fermi 83

Hahn 10, 54, 55, 73 Joilot 84, 280 Szilard 56, 83 Wells predicts 31 flash-boom (pika-don) 195 Flerov, Georgi 246 foreigners, Hiroshima 194, 195 Forrestal, James 164, 213, 214 France 16, 280—5, 286—7

Franck, James 16, 36, 149—50, 174, 234 Franck Report 150 Fries, Amos A. 19, 20 Frisch, Otto 5, 10, 55, 85—6, 88, 118 Frisch—Peierls memorandum 86, 122 Fuchs, Klaus arrest 284—5 bomb project 42 bomb research 88 and Born 40, 41 Britain 278 career 40—1 Los Alamos 118 spying 164, 239, 240, 241, 260 Fukui, Nobuichi 201 Fukuryu Maru 263 Fuller, J.FC. 48 fusion 255—6

GAC (General Advisory Committee),

Atomic Energy Commission 257 ‘gadget’ 112 Gandhi, Indira 298 Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma) 5, 173,

296, 301 Gandhi, Rajiv 299

Gaulle, Charles de see de Gaulle, Charles Geiger, Hans 9 Gendreau, J.E. 228 General Advisory Committee (GAC),

Atomic Energy Commission 257 Geneva Conventions 307 George Washington 265 Germany

bombing of 133 —7 First World War 12 invasions 62—3 Jewish scientists 36 nuclear projects 60—1, 69—83 physicists 69, 81—2 poisonous gas 14—16 Second World War 131—2, 133 —7 Golden, William 255 Goldschmidt, Bertrand 280, 283, 284 Golovin, Igor 244 Goring, Hermann 76 Gotha bombers 44 Gottingen, Germany 34, 36 Goudsmit, Samuel 71, 79, 82, 235

graphite 81, 100 Great Britain air power 43—51 bomb research 88—9 Cambridge 35 chemical weapons 16 interest in bomb 85—7 nuclear program 274—80 refugee scientists 38 science 34

Second World War 52-3, 133-7 and United States 88-91, 118, 274-5 uranium 275, 290 Great Depression 26 ‘Great Leap Forward’ 292-3 Greenglass, David 239, 240, 241 Grew, Joseph 151, 164 Groth, Wilhelm 60, 71, 73 Groves, Leslie 108-12 Alsos mission 79 bomb test 159, 160, 161 bomb’s effect 123 bomb’s radioactivity 123 and Bush 108, 109 and Compton, A. 108, 109 Hanford site 115

Hiroshima bombing 168, 193, 220 Interim Committee 153 international control of atomic energy 249, 250 and Lawrence 110 Los Alamos 82, 111 Manhattan Project 98, 108 Manhattan scientists 109-10, 112 Montreal project 282 Nishina’s cyclotron 224 and Oppenheimer 110 plutonium 114 postwar projects 234 Quebec Agreement 118 Smyth Report 273 Soviet Union 245 and Szilard 109, 149, 151 uranium 112, 113 use ofbomb 148, 170 see also Manhattan Project Guernica, Spain 51 Gueron, Jules 281, 283, 284 Guillain, Robert 217

H-bomb see hydrogen bomb Haber, Clara 21 Haber, Fritz 15, 20-1, 33, 37-8 Hachiya, Michihiko

Hiroshima bombing 177, 196, 198, 199, 200, 202 military authorities 224 nightmare 204-5 surrender 217 Hachiya, Yaeko 198, 199 Hahn, Otto arrested 80 fission 10, 54, 55,