The Age of Radiance (89 page)

Triad Doctrine,
288

Truman, Harry,
211

advice from scientists on atomic weapon use to,
206
–07

aerial reconnaissance and,
279

arms race with Soviet Union and,
235
–36,
238
,
246

Atomic Energy Commission and,
229

Cold War and,
244

future of nuclear weapons and,
206
,
235

MacArthur replaced by,
245

Meitner’s visit to,
189

Stalin and,
232
,
235

thermonuclear weapons development and,
236
,
237
,
247
,
252

use of atomic bombs in Japan and,
208
,
215
,
216
,
221
,
232
,
311

tsunami, in Japan,
342
,
344
–45,
352
–53

Tuchman, Barbara,
33
,
46

Turing, Alan,
248

Udall, Stewart,
336

Ukraine,
314
,
334

Chernobyl disaster’s effect on,
322
,
323
,
324
–25,
364
,
369

nuclear arsenal in,
291
,
337

nuclear reactors in,
313
,
360

Ulam, Françoise,
188
,
249
–50

Ulam, Stanislaw,
76
,
150
,
282
,
379

move to Los Alamos by,
150

personality of,
249

Teller’s relationship with,
231
,
250
,
265

thermonuclear fusion research by,
247
,
248
–50,
252
,
253
,
262
,
264
,
265
,
275

Union of Concerned Scientists,
353

United Nations (UN),
79
,
189
,
207
,
220
,
230
,
267
,
297
,
304
,
364

Atomic Energy Commission,
230

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),
305
,
338
,
356
,
364

Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR),
364
–65

U.S. Radium Corporation,
38

Universal Exposition (Paris, 1900),
33

University of Chicago

Met Lab at,
127
–29,
147
,
148
,
149
,
207
,
305

nuclear reactor (CP-1) installation in Stagg Field at,
129
–34

University of Rome,
57
,
58
–64,
266

uranium

common uses of,
25
–26

Curies’ joint research on,
29
–31

emission of rays from,
15
,
26
,
27

half-life of,
5
,
30

Marie Curie’s initial research on,
27

naming of,
25

Pierre Curie’s research on,
26
–27

processing of ore for,
28
–29

sources of,
4
,
6

Uranium Club (Uranverein),
105
,
176
,
177
,
178
,
179
,
183
,
186
–87

uranium-235,
4
,
120
,
122
,
123
,
161
,
166

Urey, Harold,
94
,
122
,
123
,
147
,
225

nuclear reactor design by,
185

uranium production and,
160
–61,
162
,
170
,
238

USS
Nautilus
submarine,
303
–04,
305

U-2 aerial surveillance program,
279
,
282
,
285
,
288
,
294
,
297
–98

Velikhov, Yevgeny,
331
,
332

Vernadski, Vladimir I.,
193

Verne, Jules,
79
,
303

Viner, Jacob,
278

viruses, computer,
338

von Bahr-Bergius, Eva,
96
,
98

von Braun, Wernher,
79
,
186
,
291

von Halban, Hans,
120

von Kármán, Theodore,
75
,
76
,
77

von Laue, Max,
75
,
79
,
88
,
92
,
93
,
186
,
188

Von Laue, Theo,
188

von Neumann, Janos (John),
77
,
80
,
290
,
291

atomic bomb design and,
168
,
168
,
220

background of,
168
–69

on computers in the future,
248

Hungarian background of,
75
,
76
,
231

Manhattan Project and,
148
,
155

nuclear defense strategy and,
288

Oppenheimer’s support from,
262

political campaigns and power of,
251

preemptory nuclear strike and,
244

thermonuclear research by,
239
,
248
–49,
250

von Neumann, Klari,
168
–69,
248

von Stauffenberg, Claus,
186

von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich,
118
,
178
,
180
–81,
183
,
187

Walker, Andrew,
155

Wall Street Journal,
37

Watras, Stanley,
310
–11,
312

Wattenberg, Albert,
130
–31

Wefelmeier, Wilfrid,
99

Weil, George,
134
,
135
,
136
,
137

Weimar Republic,
74
,
77
,
79
,
91
,
225
,
251

Weinberger, Caspar,
283

Weisband, Bill,
238

Weiss, Trude,
82
,
268

Weisskopf, Victor,
236

Welsome, Eileen,
271

Wells, H. G.,
7
,
79
–80,
81
,
105

Wheeler, John,
102
,
164
,
244
,
265

Wiesner, Jerome,
277
–78

Wigner, Eugene,
228

early career of,
76
,
77
,
80
,
82

on Fermi,
109

Hanford reactor and,
164

Hungarian background of,
75

need for atomic bomb research advocated by,
114
–16,
118
,
119

nuclear reactor (CP-1) testing and,
137
–38

Oak Ridge reactor and,
163

on Szilard,
76

on Teller,
229

US military research and,
122

uranium fission research of,
109

von Neumann and,
76
,
77
,
168

Wilson, Anne,
205

Wilson, Jane,
159

Wilson, Richard,
324

Wilson, Robert (Bob),
159
,
167
,
205
,
219
,
220

Wilson, Taylor,
363
–64

Wilson, Volney,
134
–35

Wohlstetter, Albert,
283
–84,
288
,
290
,
376

Woods, Leona,
124
,
131
,
137
,
164

World Set Free, The
(Wells),
79
–80

World War I (the Great War),
32
–33,
36
,
74
,
89
,
91
,
193
,
372

World War II,
128
,
194
,
195
,
206
,
230
,
232
–33,
239

Wrye, William,
205

X-rays,
3
,
5
,
11
–12,
13
–14,
34
,
35
,
36
,
49
,
50
,
57
,
58
,
79
,
85
,
126
,
215
,
230
,
250
,
309
,
368
,
377
,
378

X-ray lasers,
332

X-ray satellites,
331

Yates, Sidney,
340

York, Herbert,
236
,
250
,
252
,
281
,
290

Yoshida, Masao,
346
,
351
–52

Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility proposal,
373
,
374

Zaitchik, Alexander,
329

Zakaria, Fareed,
339

Zinn, Walter,
233

injuries suffered by,
167

nuclear reactor (CP-1) installation and testing by,
131
,
132
–33,
135
,
137

uranium fission research of,
106
,
124
,
129

Zorawski, Bronka,
17
,
18

Zorawski, Kazimierz (Casimir),
17
,
18
,
51

Zorawski, Stas,
17
–18

Zorawski family,
17
–18,
21

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