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Leahy, William 151, 162, 175, 213, 214, 233

Lebed, Aleksandr 305 LeMay, Curtis 142 on bombing 233

bombing targets 146—7, 167, 188, 209 Hiroshima bombing 189, 190 Tokyo bombing 143 Lenard, Philipp 72 Lewis, Robert 192 Lilienthal, David on bombing 147 hydrogen bomb 257, 258 international control of atomic energy 249, 250 Soviet bomb test 254, 255 Limited Test Ban Treaty 269, 302 Lindemann, Frederick 37, 38, 88, 89 Little Boy (atomic bomb) 119, 122, 176, 187—90, 190—3 Lop Nur test site, China 294—5 Los Alamos, New Mexico Fuchs 40

hydrogen bomb 259 information-sharing 82 life and work at 116—20 site found 111 spying 240—1 Los Arzamas see Arzamas-16

MacArthur, Douglas 138, 174, 178, 181, 185, 223 McGhee, George 297 McKibben, Dorothy 116 McMahon, Brien 257, 258 McMahon Bill 276 McMillan, Edward 234 ‘Mad Mullah’ (Mohammed bin Abdullah Hassan) 48, 49 Manhattan Project centralizing 111—12 established 98, 108 Fermi 35

as force of logic 127 Hanford 114—15 Oak Ridge 113 Segre 35 spying 239 success of 158

Szilard 40

see also Groves; Los Alamos; Oppenheimer Manley, John 257 Mao Zedong 274, 293, 294 Maritain, Jacques 173 Marshall, George C.

bombingJapan 141, 167 Interim Committee 123 poisonous gas 174—5 possible atomic bomb 94 use of bomb 151, 156 Matsumura (officer) 197—8 Matthias, Franklin T. 114 MAUD Committee 88-91, 122 MAUD Report 89, 90 Meitner, Lise 10, 54-5 Mendes-France, Pierre 285 Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), Chicago 100, 123, 282 Middle East 304 Mike bomb test 262 Minuteman (ICBM) 264—5 MIRVs (multiple independently

targetable reentry vehicles)

265

missiles see ICBMs; MIRVs; SLBMs Mitchell, Billy 47-8 Miyagi, Kikako 179 moderators, chain reactions 81, 100 Molotov, Vyacheslav 182, 208, 232,

238, 252 Monte Bello islands 279 Montreal, Canada 281—3 Morishita, Fumiko 226 Morrison, Philip 221 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick 299 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs) 265 Muste, A.J. 173, 300

Nagasaki bomb see Fat Man Nagasaki bombing 209—11, 220—3 Nakamura, Iwao 197 Namibia 292 napalm 53

Nasser, Gamal Abdul 288 National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE) 302

National Research Council (NRC) 25 nationalism 22, 299 Nazism 36—7 Neal, Ralph 201, 202 Neddermeyer, Seth 117 Nehru, Jawaharlal 296, 297 Nelson, Donald 109 Neumann, John von 12, 117 neutrons 9, 10 New Guinea 178 newspaper stories 230 Nicolson, Harold 56 Public Faces 56—8 Nie Rongzhen 294 Nimitz, Chester 138 Nishii, Emiko 221 Nishina, Yoshio career 12, 64—5 cyclotron 224 Hiroshima 206, 220 Nagasaki 220

nuclear project 66, 67, 68, 179,

180

Nobel prizes 36, 43, 69, 71, 92 Non-Proliferation Treaty see Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty North Atlantic Treaty 270 North Korea 304

NRC (National Research Council) 25 nuclear fission see fission Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Treaty 288—9, 292, 299, 302 nuclear power 306 nuclear programs, postwar 270, 273 nuclear reactors Canada 283 Chicago 100—2 Columbia 99 France 284 India 297 Israel 286—7 South Africa 290 Soviet Union 245 waste products 4 nuclear strike plans 252 nuclear war, threat of 4, 303 nuclear weapons China 293—5 control of 148—9, 150

nuclear weapons (cont.) critics of 300—3 elimination 292 France 285 India 295, 298, 299 Israel 287-9 proliferation 239 South Africa 290—2 Soviet Union 302 United States 302 nucleus 9

Oak Ridge, Tennessee 113 Oe, Kenzaburo 177, 224 Ogawa, Masatsugu 178 Ogura, Fumiyo 198, 227 Ogura, Toyofumi 196, 197, 224, 227 Okimoto, Tsuneo 204 Okinawa 139—40, 179 Oliphant, Marcus 9, 35, 90—1, 275 openness 272 Oppenheimer, J. Robert Alamogordo 29 atmosphere’s ignition 121 bomb test 158, 159, 160, 161 bomb’s effect 123 and Born 104 career 103—8 Gottingen 12 and Groves 110

hydrogen bomb 256, 257, 258, 262 Interim Committee’s Scientific Panel 152 international control of atomic energy 249, 250 and Lawrence 90, 104—5 Los Alamos 82, 111 recruitment of scientists 116—17 response to bombs 5, 232, 233,

300

Soviet bomb test 254, 255 U-235 115

see also Manhattan Project