Bomb (32 page)

Heavy water

Heisenberg, Werner

Helium atoms

Hitler, Adolf: bomb development and use by, potential for; rise of; Soviet Union, invasion of; Stalin, agreement not to fight; suicide of; US, declaration of war against

Hydro

Hydrogen bombs

Implosion principle and process

Japan: bomb development and war with; bomb use against; Fat Man and Nagasaki; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing; Pearl Harbor attack by; Potsdam Declaration; surrender of; Tokyo, bombing of; US declaration of war against; US invasion of, plans for

KGB (Soviet intelligence agency): agent cultivation; Amtorg; British agents; FBI surveillance of agents; information from Fuchs; information from Greenglass; information from Hall; scientists, list of for agent cultivation

Kistiakowsky, George “Kisty”

Kurchatov, Igor

Little Boy

Los Alamos laboratory: censors and mail; construction of; living conditions at; main gate and gaining entrance to; rumors about activities at; scientists, arrival of in Santa Fe; scientists, code names for; scientists, recruitment of for; site selection

Manhattan Project

McKibben, Dorothy

Meitner, Lise

Neutrons

New Mexico.
See also
Santa Fe

Norway: British glider missions; German bomb factory in; German invasion of; Hardanger Plateau; Nazi sympathizers in; Norwegians in Britain, return to Norway for secret mission; resistance group activities in; Vemork Hydroelectric, Gunnerside mission to destroy; Vemork Hydroelectric, Poulsson and glider mission to demolish; Vemork Hydroelectric saboteurs, hiding out by

Nucleus

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oppenheimer, Frank

Oppenheimer, Robert: appearance and character of; bomb, development of; childhood and early life of; CIC surveillance of; Communism, interest in by; death of; education of; FBI surveillance of; forgetfulness of; health of; hydrogen bombs; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing; Los Alamos laboratory recruitment; Los Alamos laboratory site selection; loyalty of; Manhattan Project director; opinions about; photos of; physics, passion for; plutonium bomb, design of; plutonium bomb testing; political events, interest in; Princeton University, teaching at; recognition of as Father of Atomic Bomb; resignation of; scorpions in a bottle; security clearance of; Soviet agent, attempt to recruit as; Truman, meeting with; University of California, Berkeley, teaching at; Uranium Committee membership

Physicists and scientists: German scientists, US round up of; German scientists at Farm Hall; Jewish scientists in Europe, escape of; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, reaction to; Los Alamos, recruitment for

Plutonium and plutonium bombs: bomb, completion of; bomb, testing of; bomb design for; chain reaction; Fat Man and Nagasaki; fission; gun assembly design and method; implosion principle and process; plastic explosives for bomb; production of; sample for Los Alamos

Poulsson, Jens

Protons

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR): bomb, agreement to keep secret; bomb danger, letter to about; bomb danger, reaction to; Churchill, meeting with; death of; driving abilities of; photos of; secrecy of Manhattan Project

Santa Fe

Sax, Saville

Semyonov, Semyon “Sam”

Serber, Robert

Soviet Union: bomb development by; bomb information and scientists, keeping secret from; bomb testing, reaction to; Communism in; Enormoz project; German invasion of; Germany, agreement not to fight; Germany, fighting against; hydrogen bombs; Japan, declaration of war against; plutonium bomb testing; secrets, passing to ally; spying to steal US bomb plans; US, relationship with; US aid to.
See also
KGB (Soviet intelligence agency)

Stalin, Joseph: bomb development by Soviets; British and US attack on Germany, call for; Hitler, agreement not to fight; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, reaction to; opinions about; plutonium bomb, reaction to information about; plutonium bomb, report on testing of; Truman, Potsdam meeting with

Stimson, Henry

Szilard, Leo

Tibbets, Paul

Trinity Test Site

Truman, Harry: Japan, third atomic bomb for; Japanese surrender, demand for; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, reaction to; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, report to; Manhattan Project, secrecy of; Oppenheimer, meeting with; photos of; plutonium bomb, reaction of Stalin to information about; plutonium bomb, report on outcome of testing of; Potsdam Declaration; Roosevelt's death, news about; Stalin, Potsdam meeting with; US invasion of Japan, plans for; as vice president

United States (US): bomb, development of; bomb, US–British development of; British and US attack on Germany, call for by Stalin; Germany, fighting against; Hitler's declaration of war against; Italy, fighting against; Japan, declaration of war against; Japan, fighting against; monopoly on atomic bombs; Pearl Harbor, attack on; Potsdam Declaration; Red Scare and hunt for Communists; Soviets, aid to; Soviets, relationship with

Uranium and uranium bombs: amount needed for bomb; atom splitting, discovery of; atom splitting and bombs; bomb, testing of; chain reaction; Czechoslovakian mining of; energy release during splitting of; German supply of; gun assembly design and method; Little Boy bomb and Hiroshima bombing; number of atoms in an ounce of; Oak Ridge preparation of; plutonium, production of; size of atoms of; U-235 sample, experiment with; U-238 and U-235, separation of

Vemork Hydroelectric: Gunnerside mission; heavy water production at; location of; photo of; Poulsson and glider mission to demolish; rebuilding of; sabotage plans against

Wigner, Eugene

World War II: Allied Powers; atomic bombs and loss of; Axis Powers; beginning of; end of; German-Japanese alliance; German surrender; Japan, surrender of; Pearl Harbor, attack on; Potsdam Declaration; US declaration of war against Japan

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Sheinkin, Steve.

Bomb : the race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.

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ISBN 978-1-59643-487-5

1.  Atomic bomb—History.   2.  World War, 1939–1945—Secret service—Soviet Union.   3.  World War, 1939–1945—Secret service—Great Britain.   4.  World War, 1939–1945— Commando operations—Norway—Vemork.   5.  Operation Freshman, 1942.   6.  Atomic bomb—Germany—History.   I.  Title.   II.  Title: The race to build and steal the world's most dangerous weapon.

UG1282.A8.S235 2012

623.4'5119—dc23

2011044096

eISBN 9781596438613

First hardcover edition, 2012

eBook edition, September 2012