The First War of Physics (85 page)

Radiological Laboratory
32

Auschwitz
294
,
463–4

AZUSA (OSS mission)
259
,
261
,
269
,
277
,
339

B-29 bomber
211
,
302
,
328–9
,
331–2
,
451

Bock’s Car
335

Enola Gay
331–3

The Great Artiste
329

B-50 bomber
445

Bacher, Robert
167
,
246
,
252
,
285

Bagge, Erich
20
,
28–9
,
31
,
78
,
270
,
293
,
340
,
344
,
349
,
351–3
,
356

Bainbridge, Kenneth
286
,
313–14
,
317–18

Baltic States
86

Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas
33

Barbarossa, Operation,
see
operations

Bard, Ralph
303

barium
7
,
283

Baruch, Bernard
401

Base
112
(Soviet nuclear laboratory)
419

Bavaria
4

Bayo Canyon, laboratory at
252

Belenky, Semyon
443

Belgian Congo
152
,
415

Belgium
18
,
34–5
,
63
,
90
,
278
,
341
,
435

Belgrade
391

Bell Laboratories
108
,
267

Belsen concentration camp
463

Benes, Edvard
291
,
435

Bennett, Major John M.
216

Bentley, Elizabeth
384
,
431

Berg, Morris (Moe)
261–2
,
268–9
,
276–8

Bergen
83

Beria, Lavrenty Pavlovich
79
,
160–1
,
249
,
292
,
313
,
360–1
,
367
,
370–4
,
392
,
419–21
,
442
,
445
,
449–51
,
471–2

Berlenko, Viktor
491

Berlin

airlift (Operation Vittles)
439
,
441–2
,
437

Allied bombing of
55
,
266
,
270

Allied occupation of
435–6

blockade
434–9

Dahlem suburb
266

German Army Ordnance Headquarters
119

Gottow suburb
120

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
3
,
31
,
39
,
44

Lichterfeld suburb
80

Oranienburg facility
32

Plötzensee Prison
278

Soviet assault on
292
,
295

SS Headquarters
25

University,
see
universities

the Virus House
38–9
,
75

West Berlin
436
,
489

Bernstein, Leonard
465

beryllium
66
,
68
,
75
,
124
,
191
,
312
,
317
,
365
,
407

Best, SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Werner
266

beta particles,
see
particles

Bethe, Hans
147
,
412
,
423

Bevin, Ernest
411

Bhagavad-Gita, the
287
,
315
,
318

Bikini Atoll
407–10

Crossroads atomic bomb tests
407–10

Birkbeck College, London
2
,
83

Black Forest, the
270

Blackett, Patrick
57
,
64
,
100

Blair, Tony
260

Blair House
402

Bletchley Park
219
,
260

Blitz, the
56
,
227

Bloch, Felix
147
,
188
,
236

Blunt, Anthony
103

Bock’s Car, see also
B-29 bomber
335

Bohm, David
194
,
468

Quantum Theory
(book)
468

Bohr, Niels
2–4
,
7–17
,
20
,
29–30
,
34
,
45
,
49
,
57
,
60–1
,
66–8
,
87–92
,
132
,
159
,
199–201
,
211–16
,
219
,
227–31
,
236–7
,
249–53
,
256
,
262
,
265–6
,
273
,
300
,
304
,
352
,
360
,
372–4
,
385
,
389–90
,
397
,
423
,
487

Bolshoi Theatre,
see
Moscow

bombs

‘Fat Man’
208
,
211
,
246
,
286
,
311–21
,
328
,
335–6
,
369–70
,
407
,
420
,
433–4
,
442
,
451

hydrogen (H-bomb)
425
,
442–3
,
469
,
470
,
472
,
475
,
478–9

implosion
291
,
420

‘Little Boy’
226
,
302
,
312
,
319–20
,
322
,
325
,
328–9
,
331
,
333–4
,
346
,
351
,
433–4

plutonium
189
,
210–11
,
242–6
,
254
,
285–6
,
291
,
312
,
335
,
338
,
345
,
370
,
420
,
426
,
444

RDS-1
420
,
442
,
449

RDS-2
420

RDS-6
442
,
472

RDS-37
473

RDS-220 (
TsarBomba
)
488

the ‘Super’
148–150
,
235–6
,
406–7
,
425
,
442–5
,
454–8
,
460
,
470
,
474

‘Thin Man’208,
211
,
226

uranium
32
,
54
,
100–3
,
226
,
274
,
286
,
302
,
319–20
,
344–5
,
351

Booth QC, Cherie
260

Bordeaux
35
,
70

Borden, William L.
475

Bormann, Martin
121

Born, Max
97
,
143

Bosch, Carl
2

Bothe, Walter
35
,
38
,
76
,
119
,
121
,
292
,
340

Bradbury, Norris
405
,
407
,
469–70

Bradley, General Omar
272

Braun, Eva
295

Bravo test, the
473

Breit, Gregory
142

Briggs, Lyman J.
42

Bristol University,
see
universities

Britain, Battle of
55
,
73

British Chemical Society
59

British Columbia
181

British Expeditionary Force
34

British Housewives’ League
424

British intelligence
174
,
218
,
260
,
263
,
340
,
382–4
,
425
,
454
,
458

British Ministry of Supply
64
,
71–2
,
94
,
227

British Museum, the
363
,
382
,
394

Brodie, Earl
277

Bronowski, Jacob
463–4

Brooke, Gerald
483

Broompark
, SS (ship)
71–2

Brothman, Abraham
431

Brun, Jomar
82
,
123
,
135

Brussels, Treaty of
435

Bucharest
391

Buchenwald concentration camp
463

Buckton, Flight Sergeant A.
153

Budapest
391

Bulgaria
387
,
390

Bulge, Battle of the
278

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
(periodical)
390
,
492

Burgess, Guy
103

Burma
263

Burroughs, William
166

Burt, Commander Leonard
393
,
460

Bush, George W.
492

Bush.Vannevar
51
,
141
,
478

B-VIII nuclear reactor
287–9

Byrnes, James
301

Cabinet committees

Gen
163
411

Gen
75
393

cadmium
156
,
204
,
283
,
421

caesium
283

Cahn, Albert
300

Cairncross, John
103
,
155
,
161

Calabria
266

California, University of,
see
universities

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
143
,
262
,
412

Cambridge, Massachusetts
99
,
239
,
254
,
448
,
453

Cambridge University,
see
universities

Canada
98
,
140
,
142
,
168
,
214
,
227
,
363
,
377–8
,
382
,
292–4
,
399–400
,
407–9
,
452

Canadian Air Force,
see
Royal Canadian Air Force

Canadian Broadcasting Company
99
,
382

Canadian Communist Party,
see

Communist Party

Canadian police,
see
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Canadian Royal Commission
394

Carlsberg Foundation
199

Carnegie Institution, Washington
49
,
52
,
93

Casimir, Hendrik
264

Castle series, the
473

Castro, Fidel
488
,
490

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
57
,
72
,
143
,
168
,
483

cavity magnetron, development of
58

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
224
,
261

Centre
300
(Soviet nuclear laboratory)
419

Chadwick, James
62–5
,
69
,
73–1
,
93
,
132
,
140–1
,
200
,
211–13
,
217–18
,
229
,
262
,
316
,
400
,
405
,
408

chain reactions, nuclear
15
,
17
,
19–20
,
27
,
42
,
44–5
,
51
,
80
,
99
,
247

Chamberlain, Neville
16
,
55

Chambers, Whitaker
466

Charter Hill
109
,
164

Château de Facqueval
341

Château du Chesnay
341

Cheliabinsk-40 (nuclear reactor)
420
,
432
,
448

Cherwell, Lord
101

‘Chevalier incident’, the
184–6
,
205
,
413
,
466
,
475
,
477–8
,

Chevalier, Haakon
145
,
184
,
195

Chew, Samuel
422

Chiang Kai-Shek
263
,
326

Chicago
26
,
137–9
,
146–8
,
163–4
,
180
,
188
,
204
,
243
,
248
,
254
,
282
,
293
,
307
,
363
,
406
,
420
,
452–3
,
469
,
480

China
112
,
145
,
182
,
369
,
409

Chuikov, General Vasily
162

Churchill, Sir Winston
16–17
,
55
,
73
,
101
,
133
,
136
,
141
,
180–2
,
211
,
214
,
237–8
,
249
,
250–1
,
259
,
293
,
304
,
326
,
343
,
390–2
,
397–8

Clarke, Colonel Carter
176
,
429–30

Clay, General Lucius D.
436

Clayton, William
303

Clusius, Klaus
30
,
260

Clusius-Dickel method, technique, and apparatus
36
,
59–61
,
67
,
73
,
77–8