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implications of nuclear research 43 poisonous gas 15-16, 17, 20, 21 response to bombs 4 and Rutherford 9 Halban, Hans von 88, 280, 281, 282,

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Haldane, J.S. 16 Hale, George 25, 26 Hall, Theodore 239, 240, 241 Halsey, William F. 166 Hamburg, Germany 135-6 Hanford site, Washington State 114-15 Hantaro, Nagaoka 9, 64 Hara, Tamiki 223 Harris, Arthur 49-51, 52-3, 307 Harrison, George 150 Harteck, Paul 60, 69, 71, 73, 74, 80 Hassan, Mohammed bin Abdullah (‘Mad Mullah’) 48, 49 heavy water 62-3, 280, 281 Heisenberg, Werner 69-73 arrested 80 and Bohr 13, 70, 75 and Born 70 miscalculations 81 nuclear projects 74-5, 77, 78, 81, 82 response to bombs 4 uncertainty principle 70 Hersey, John 223 Herter, Christian 287 hibakusha (bomb survivors) 223 Hilbert, David 37 Himmler, Heinrich 72-3 Hinton, Christopher 277 Hiranuma, Kiichiro 212-13

Hirohito, Emperor

Hiroshima bombing 206—7 island campaigns 179 Soviet war declaration 208 surrender 218—19 surrender terms 212, 213, 215 wartime policymaking 180—1, 182—3 Hiroshima, Japan 189, 193-5, 307-9 Hiroshima bomb see Little Boy Hiroshima bombing

American prisoners of war 201—2 censorship 223 damage assessment 220-3 deaths 203, 222 flash-boom (pika-don) 195 medical care for survivors 198—9 memories of 223—7 Mission No. 13 (bombing mission): 1, 190—3 news of 4, 205—6 planning 165 plant growth after 205 radiation poisoning 198, 301 silence 177, 195

survivors’ experience of 146, 177, 195—205, 231 Hirschfelder, Joe 161 Hitler, Adolf 36, 76 Hopkins, James 210 Hurricane bomb test 279 Hyde Park Agreement 274—5 hydrogen 9

hydrogen bomb 255—63

see also thermonuclear devices

ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) 264—5, 266 implosion, plutonium 119 incendiaries 53, 142, 143 India 274, 295—300 Ingram, Jonas H. 167 Institute of Physical and Chemical

Research (Riken) 64, 68, 179,

180, 224 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) 264—5, 266 Interim Committee 123, 152—4, 157 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force (INF) Treaty 302

International Atomic Energy Agency 273 international control, atomic energy 249—50, 272 international reaction to bomb 228—31 international security 250 Ioffe, Abram 24, 237 Iran 304

Ishida (scientist) 35 Israel 285—9 Ito Committee 67—8 Ito, Yoji 67 Iwo Jima 179

Japan

American views of Japanese 166—8 Big Six (Supreme War Council) 209, 211—13, 216 bombing of 141—5 defense plan (Ketsu-go) 171, 184—7 nuclear projects 64—9, 179 occupation authority 223 peace faction 182, 183, 184 possible invasion of 171—2 Potsdam Declaration 164—5 in retreat 177—84 Second World War 97, 137—45 surrender 2—3, 217—20 surrender terms 211—16 and United States 96—7, 185—7 Japanese-Americans 166, 194, 195 Jeppson, Morris 191, 192 Jewish scientists 36—7, 76, 286 Joachimsthal, Bohemia 59—60 Johnson, Louis 254, 258 Johnson, Lyndon 287—8, 297 Joliot, Frederic (later Joliot-Curie)

CEA 284, 285 fission 84, 280 heavy water 62—3 nuclear research 54 radioactivity 43

Kapitsa, Peter

bomb program 245 Cambridge 35, 236 Communist regime 24, 36 liquid oxygen 238 possible bomb 243 and Rutherford 9

Karman, Theodor von 12 Kennan, George 247 Kennedy, John F. 266, 268, 269, 287 Kennedy, Robert 268 Ketsu-go (Japan’s defence plan) 184—7 Khariton, Yuli 237, 243, 245, 246, 260 Khrushchev, Nikita 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 294

Kido, Koichi 181, 206, 208, 209, 212, 215 KimJong-Il 304 King, Ernest 151

Kistiakowsky, George 93, 117, 120, 161 Kitayama, Futuba 197 Klaproth, Martin Heinrich 60 Kleinsorge, Wilhelm 204 Koiso, Kuniaki 180 Kokura, Japan 209, 210 Konoe, Fumimaro 182, 212 Koreans, Hiroshima 194 Korsching, Horst 69 Kowarski, Lew 88, 280, 281, 283, 284 Kuboyama, Aikichi 263 Kurabayashi, Tademichi 179 Kurchatov, Igor

bomb program 241, 244, 246 hydrogen bomb 260, 262 nuclear physics laboratories 24, 237, 238

nuclear reactor 243 Kurihara, Sadako 226 Kyoto, Japan 156 Kyushu, Japan 185

Laue, Max von 69, 80 Lauritsen, Charles 89 Lawrence, Ernest Berkeley 24 and Compton, A. 91 cyclotrons 102-3, 234, 237 fissionable uranium 99, 113 German bomb threat 97 and Groves 110 hydrogen bomb 257 Interim Committee