The Age of Radiance (87 page)

arms race concerns of,
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,
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,
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–44,
278

atomic bomb design and,
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atomic bomb testing and,
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,
229

atomic bomb recommendations from,
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,
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,
371

Atomic Energy Commission and,
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,
257
,
258
,
259
–61

awards and recognition of,
265

background of,
141
,
144

Bohr and,
175
,
176
,
191
–92,
257

Chicago Met Lab work of, as Coordinator of Rapid Rupture,
147
,
148
,
150

Communist past of,
149

concern about German progress and,
184

death of,
265
,
269

eccentricity of,
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firebombing of Japan and,
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hearing on security clearance for,
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–65

hydrogen bomb opposition of,
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,
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,
259
,
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,
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influence of,
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Livermore lab opposition of,
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Los Alamos research and,
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,
150
,
155
,
158
,
166
,
175
,
225
,
227
,
261
–62

Manhattan Project and,
147
–49,
155
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,
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,
184
,
220

marriage of,
144

nuclear detection system and,
234

nuclear explosives research by,
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,
163

nuclear power plant dangers and,
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Oak Ridge reactor and,
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personality of,
141
–43,
257
–48

research secrecy and,
259

research with Lawrence at Berkeley by,
141
–42,
145

Roosevelt’s death and,
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–95

Strauss and,
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–48

suspicions about and surveillance of,
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,
170
,
185
,
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–57,
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,
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,
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Teller and,
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,
220
,
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,
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,
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,
262
–64

thermal diffusion and,
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thermonuclear fusion research and,
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,
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,
250
,
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,
259

Oppenheimer, Kitty,
144
,
149
,
155
,
156
,
172
,
198

Orear, Jay,
104
,
125

Overbeck, Wilcox,
135

Paderewski, Ignaz,
20

Page, Katherine,
143
–44

Page, Winthrop,
143
–44

Pais, Abraham,
261

Pakistan,
6
,
337
,
339
,
373

Palladino, Eusapia,
32

Panasyuk, I. S.,
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Parsons, Deke,
156
,
212

Partial Test Ban Treaty,
299

Pash, Boris,
185
,
186

Pasteur, Louis,
29
,
33
,
141

Pasteur Institute,
43

Pauli, Wolfgang,
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,
83
,
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,
95

Pearson, Mike,
376

Pegram, George,
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125
,
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Peierls, Gennia,
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,
170

Peierls, Rudolf¸
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,
159
,
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,
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Perle, Richard,
333

Perrin, Henriette,
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44

Perrin, Jean,
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Perry, William J.,
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Persico, Enrico,
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Petrzhak, Konstantin,
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Philby, Kim,
238

Phillips, Melba,
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Photography
magazine,
11
–12

Picasso, Pablo,
33
–34

Picture Parade
(comic book),
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Pillitteri, Carl,
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,
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Planck, Erwin,
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Planck, Max,
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59
,
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Einstein’s research and,
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–88

Hitler’s laws against Jews and,
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Meitner’s support from,
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,
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,
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wartime bombing of house of,
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plutonium

Mayak Plutonium Facility, Russia, accident and release of,
323

Rocky Flats, Colorado, plant fire and release of,
323

Poincaré, Henri,
14

polonium,
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,
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popular culture, radiation theme in,
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–75,
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–11,
367

Pousson, Jens,
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Power, Thomas,
288

pregnancy, effects of radiation on,
215
,
271
,
308
,
324

Preuss, Paul,
4

Pripyat, Ukraine,
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,
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,
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–20,
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,
324
,
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Project Alsos,
185
,
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,
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Public Awareness of Nuclear Science,
369

Pulitzer, Elinor,
155

Putin, Vladimir,
54

Rabi, Isidor Isaac,
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,
156
,
188
,
331

ballistic missile tracking and,
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concern about German progress by,
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Hungarian background of,
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move to Los Alamos rejected by,
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Oppenheimer’s support by,
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,
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–61,
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,
264
–65

Szilard and,
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,
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,
112

on Teller,
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,
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thermonuclear weapons development and,
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,
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uranium fission research of,
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,
112

Racah, Giulio,
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radiation

cancer from exposure to,
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effects of, after Chernobyl disaster,
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–24

fear of,
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,
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medical use of,
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,
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as popular culture theme,
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–75,
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–11,
367

pregnancy and,
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,
271
,
308
,
324

research on health effects of,
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–66

Teller’s concepts of effects of,
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as two-faced miracle,
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,
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understanding more to fear less about,
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–79

Radiation Effects Research Foundation,
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–66

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act,
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radiation sickness,
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,
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,
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radioisotopes,
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,
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,
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,
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–77

radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs),
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radiophobia,
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,
370

Radithor (radium water),
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radium,
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burns from,
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Curies’ research on,
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–34,
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medical use of,
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–36,
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public enthusiasm for,
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–35,
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–37,
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Radium Chemical Company,
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Radium Institute, Paris,
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,
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,
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radium isotopes,
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radon,
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RAND,
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–83,
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,
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Rasetti, Franco,
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–58,
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Ray, Maud,
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Reagan, Ronald,
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,
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,
376

fear of atomic bomb threats by,
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–28,
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Flexible Response strategy of,
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problems in defense strategies and,
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–31,
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proposed nuclear arms reduction treaty and,
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–30,
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–33

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI; Star Wars) and,
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–32,
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,
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Reese, Willy Peter,
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Regaud, Claude
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Reich Research Council,
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Rhodes, Richard,
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,
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Richardson, Owen,
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–21

Rickover, Hyman,
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,
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–04

Ridgway, Matthew,
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Riken Institute, Saitama, Japan,
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Rittenmeyer, Nicole,
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Robb, Roger,
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,
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Rockwell, Theodore,
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Rocky Flats, Colorado, plant,
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Rodin, Auguste,
34

Ronnenberg, Joachim,
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Röntgen, Anna Bertha,
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Röntgen, Wilhelm,
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,
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,
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public enthusiasm for work of,
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–12,
34

X-ray discovery by,
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–13,
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Röntgen rays,
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–12,
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,
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Röntgen Society,
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Roosevelt, Eleanor,
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,
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,
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
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,
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Bohr’s letter to, about nuclear arms race,
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letters between Einstein and,
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–18,
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,
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,
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,
220
,
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Manhattan Project and,
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,
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,
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Nazi development of nuclear weapons and,
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory and,
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Oppenheimer and,
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,
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–95

uranium fission research and,
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,
125
,
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Rosbaud, Paul,
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Rosenberg, Ethel,
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,
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–43,
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Rosenberg, Julius,
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,
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,
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–43,
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Rosenbluth, Marshall,
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Rosenfeld, Léon,
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–02

Rossi, Bruno,
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Rostow, Elspeth,
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Rotblat, Joseph¸
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Roy, Susan,
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
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,
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,
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Rubens, Heinrich,
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Rupp, Arthur,
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Rusk, Dean,
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Rutherford, Ernest,
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–30,
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–87,
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SAC.
See
Strategic Air Command

Sachs, Alexander,
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,
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Saffer, Tom,
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Sagan, Carl,
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–56,
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St. Joachimsthal, Czechoslovakia, mine,
36
,
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,
231

Sakharov, Andrei,
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,
237
,
250
,
254
–55,
268
,
317

Saletan, William,
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Savannah
submarine,
305

Sawachika, Hiroshi,
214

Schell, Jonathan,
299
,
328