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arms race 263, 264, 265—6 atomic diplomacy 155, 168 bomb program 244—6 bomb test 241, 246, 253, 254 and China 293—4 Cold War 247—8, 252—5 Cuban missile crisis 267—9
effect on ofbomb use 129, 148, 169,
170
hydrogen bomb 259—61, 262—3 nuclear program 236—8 nuclear reactor 245 nuclear weapons 302 physicists 236—7, 243 scientists 23—4
Second World War 140, 163, 181—2, 208, 215 spymg 238—44 suitcase bombs 305 Speer, Albert 77 Sputnik satellite 264 spymg 238—44 Stalin, Josef
bomb program 4, 244, 245, 252 Cold War 247, 248, 253 hydrogen bomb 261 Japan 182, 208 and Molotov 252 nuclear program 238, 242 Potsdam summit 162—3, :64 Yalta conference 140 Stalin’s Rocket Engine (bomb test) 241, 246, 253, 254 Stark, Johannes 72 states, scientists 22—7 Staudinger, Hermann 17 Stilwell, Joseph W. 174 Stimson, Henry L. on bomb 232 Cold War 249
Interim Committee 123, 124, 152 Japanese surrender terms 164, 213, 214 Manhattan Project 109 poisonous gas 175 possible atomic bomb 94 Potsdam 162
use ofbomb 129, 130, 155—6, 169 Strassmann, Fritz 10, 54, 55, 73 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty 302 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty 302 Strategic Bombing Survey 221—2 Strauss, Lewis 56, 257, 263 Su, Shin Bok 200—1 submarines 265 Sudoplatov, Pavel 240, 242 suffocation 20
suicide attacks 185, 186-7, 304-5, 306 suitcase bombs 305 Sumie, Terai 211 Super see hydrogen bomb superweapons see hydrogen bomb Supreme War Council (Big Six) 209, 211-13, 216 survivors
atomic bombs 146, 177, 195-205, 231 firebombing 146 hibakusha (bomb survivors) 223 memories of Hiroshima 223-7 Suzuki, Kantaro
Hiroshima bombing 206 Potsdam Declaration 165 prime minister 180, 181 Soviet war declaration 208 surrender terms 209, 212, 215 Sweeney, Charles W. 209, 210 Szilard, Leo
Advisory Committee on Uranium 85 bomb project 41
concerns over bomb possibility 83, 84 control of nuclear weapons 148-9, 271-2 early career 33-4 and Einstein 84, 97 emigration 12 and Fermi 102 fission 56, 83 and Groves 109, 149 Manhattan Project 40 nuclear reactor 99 petition 150-1 response to bombs 5, 234 travels 39-40
World Set Free, The 11, 33, 34
Takamatsu, Prince 212 Takeuchi, Masashi 66, 180 Tamm, Igor 260 targets see bombing targets Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 296-7 Teller, Edward
Advisory Committee on Uranium 85 atmosphere’s ignition 121 bomb test 159 emigration 12
fission products suggestion 125 hydrogen bomb 258, 259, 261, 262 Los Alamos 116, 120, 259 Soviet bomb test 255 terrorism 304-5 test bombs see bomb tests Thackeray, Bal 300 Thapar, Raj 298-9
thermonuclear devices 255-6, 269, 280, 295
see also hydrogen bomb Thin Man 119 Thomson, G.P 63, 86, 88 Thomson, JJ. 8 Thomson Committee 86-7 thorium 113
Tibbets, Paul W 1, 165, 187-8, 189-92, 209
Tinian Island, Marianas 165, 188,
189-90, 209 Titans (intermediate-range missiles) 264 Tizard, Sir Henry 63, 86 Togo, Shigenori 180, 207, 208, 209, 212, 215
Tojo, Hideki 97, 178
Tokyo, Japan 142-6, 216
Toyoda, Soemu 184, 207, 215, 219
Trenchard, Hugh 44-5, 46-7, 48
Trenchard Doctrine 47
Trinity bomb test 121, 158-61, 162, 163
tritium 259
Truman, Harry S.
Axis surrender 131 bombing targets 147 bomb’s radioactivity 124 Britain 275 and Byrnes 154-5 Cold War 253
Hiroshima bombing 193, 230 hydrogen bomb 258, 259 international control of atomic energy 249, 250, 272, 276 Japanese strategy 140, 151, 187 Japanese surrender terms 213, 214,
215, 216 language 168 Potsdam Declaration 165 Potsdam summit 161-4 Soviet bomb test 254, 255
Truman, Harry S. (cont.)
Soviet Union 169
use of bomb 95, 127-8, 157, 173, 174, 175, 232-3 Twining, Nathan 266
Ulam, Stanislaw 117, 261
Umezu, Yoshijiro 184, 207, 209, 215
uncertainty principle 70
United Kingdom see Great Britain
United Nations 251, 273
United States
arms race 263, 264—5 Army Air Forces (AAF) 134—5 see also Eighth Air Force bomb project 94—6, 98 and Britain 88—91, 118, 274—5 chemical weapons 16—17 codebreaking operation (Venona) 239 Cold War 247