The First War of Physics (86 page)

Cockcroft, John
64
,
68–9
,
84
,
214
,
400
,
405
,
408
,
424

Cohen, Lona
311
,
364
,
377
,
407
,
481
,
483

Cohen, Morris
311
,
481–3

Cold War, the
390–1
,
413
,
435
,
457
,
468
,
474
,
480
,
485

Collège de France, Paris
69–70
,
274

Cologne
289

Columbia University,
see
universities

Combined Development Trust, the
399–400
,
414

Combined Policy Committee, the
214
,
216
,
398–400
,
416
,
426

Communism
183
,
185
,
240
,
390
,
459

Communist Party

American
145
,
183
,
194–5
,
465
,
480

Canadian
99
,
382

Czech
434

German
97

Communists
3
,
97
,
168
,
184
,
193
,
208
,
255
,
466
,
489

Compañia Hill
316

Compton, Arthur
106
,
137
,
303

Compton, Karl
303

‘Compton effect’, the
106

concentration camps

Auschwitz
294
,
463–4

Belsen
463

Buchenwald
463

Dachau
4
,
57

Theresienstadt
273

Château du Chesnay
341

Condon, Edward
189
,
236
,
389

Congress,
see
US Congress

Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company
181

control rods
156–7
,
204
,
283
,
421

Copenhagen
2–4
,
9–14
,
18
,
29
,
34
,
57
,
68–9
,
75
,
79
,
87–9
,
92
,
119–20
,
199
,
211–12
,
265–6
,
273
,
352
,
372–3
,
487

Copenhagen University,
see
universities

Cornell University,
see
universities

Coronet, Operation,
see
operations

cosmic rays
191
,
354

Council of Foreign Ministers
368–9
,
386

Cowpuncher committee
285
,
314

Crimea State University,
see
universities

Critical Assemblies Group,
see also
G Division
279

critical mass, problem of
60–1
,
67
,
279

‘criticality’
190
,
204
,
282
,
288–9
,
420–1
,
432
,
449

Cromwell, Oliver
463

Crossroads atomic bomb tests,
see also
Bikini Atoll
407–10

cryptanalysis
177

cryptanalysts
258
,
260
,
422
,
429

Cuba
302
,
488–91

missile crisis
491

Curie, Marie
70

cyclotron, the
5
,
12
,
35
,
38
,
37–9
,
62–3
,
66
,
68
,
73
,
93
,
105
,
107
,
109
,
139–40
,
164
,
176
,
191
,
199
,
242–3
,
248–9
,
265
,
274
,
292

Czech Communist Party,
see
Communist Party

Czechoslovakia
19
,
28
,
32
,
291
,
434
,
435

Dachau concentration camp
4
,
57

Dahlem (suburb of Berlin)
266
,
295

Daily Mail
(periodical)
174

Daily Telegraph
(periodical)
355

Daily Worker
(periodical)
253

Dale, Sir Henry
101

Danish resistance, the
200–13
,
229

Danzig
29
,
78

Dayton, Ohio
441

D-Day (Operation Overlord)
237
,
272

Debye, Pieter
38
,
44

DEFCON (US armed forces defence readiness condition)
489
,
491

Degussa company, the
86

Denmark, invasion of (Operation Weserübung)
34
,
64
,
68

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
71
,
102

Department S
362
,
373

Design Bureau No.
11
(konstruktorskoe biuro-
11 or KB-11)419

Detachment
101
,
see also
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
263

deuterium
30
,
58
,
69
,
147–9
,
471

Deuxième Bureau, the (French military intelligence agency)
33

Dickel, Gerhard
30
,
36
,
59–61
,
67
,
73
,
77–8

Diebner, Kurt
16
,
20
,
29
,
33
,
35
,
38
,
120
,
123
,
126
,
202–4
,
265
,
274
,
288–9
,
294
,
339
,
341–3
,
347
,
351–6

diffusion

gaseous
96
,
99
,
102
,
105
,
163
,
175
,
179–80
,
218
,
227
,
239–41
,
248
,
280
,
335
,
418
,
452–3
,
459
,
484

method
30–1
,
67
,
78
,
452

process
209

technique
59
,
73
,
77
,
140

theory
242
,
346

thermal
59
,
176
,
248
,
280

Dijon
277

Dirac, Paul
143
,
218

Dobrynin, Anatoly
490

Dodds, Harold
468

Donovan, William ‘Wild Bill’
261
,
276
,
423

‘Doomsday Clock’
492

Döpel, Robert
38
,
76
,
86
,
124
,
130

Downfall, Operation,
see
operations

Dresden
302

Du Pont
242
,
282

Dulles, Allen
276

Dunkirk
35

Dunning, John
45
,
53

Dutch East Indies
112

Eagle Hill
185
,
187

East Germany,
see
Germany

Eastern Front
86
,
161
,
390

Eastern European bloc
435

Economic Stabilisation Office
301

Economist
(periodical)
409

Edinburgh
34
,
99

Edinburgh University,
see
universities

Ehrenfest, Paul
143

Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH)
276

Eifler, Colonel Carl
263
,
276

Einstein, Albert
2
,
8–9
,
19
,
24
,
26
,
41–5
,
54
,
144
,
184
,
235
,
300
,
389
,
465
,
468

Eisenhower, Dwight D.
302
,
322
,
474–5
,
480

Eldorado mine
181

Electrical Numerical Integrator andCalculator
406

electromagnetic separation
78
,
105
,
109
,
165
,
180
,
186
,
194
,
196
,
208–9
,
248
,
418

electron
spin
273

electrons
230
,
388

Elekrostal plant, the
418

elements

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

element
93
(neptunium)
36–7
,
49–51
,
68–9
,
74
,
81
,
107

element
94
(plutonium)
94
41
,
50–1
,
54
,
74
,
80–2
,
95
,
105–10
,
120
,
122
,
129
,
137–9
,
176
,
180
,
189
,
210–11
,
235
,
242–8
,
254
,
282
,
284–6
,
291
,
312–17
,
335
,
338
,
345
,
363
,
365–7
,
370
,
385
,
407
,
417
,
420
,
426
,
432–4
,
444
,
448–9
,
461
,
471

polonium
191
,
312
,
317
,
365

rhenium
37
,
49
,
67

transuranic
5–6
,
9
,
49

Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians
19

Eltenton, George
184–6
,
197
205–7
,
223
,
413–14

Elugelab, island of
471

encryption
177
,
258

Engebi Island
434

ENIAC (computer)
406

Eniwetok Atoll
433
,
471

Enola Gay, see also
B-29 bomber
331–3

ENORMOZ (Soviet espionage operation)
184
,
218
,
249
,
452–3

Epsilon, Operation,
see
operations

Esau, Abraham
16
,
29
,
263–4

espionage, Soviet
182–6
,
193
,
196
,
223
,
311
,
366
,
423–4
,
431

Europa
, SS (ship)
27

Europe
15
,
18
,
23
,
35
,
41
,
43
,
48
,
54–5
,
65
,
85
,
89
,
98
,
110
,
113
,
118
,
143
,
145
,
170
,
223
,
227
,
259
,
264
,
322
,
326
,
339
,
341
,
354
,
415
,
440
,
463

Eastern Europe
90
,
391
,
434
,
447

Western Europe
68
,
73
,
88
,
119
,
413
,
440

Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm)
489–90

explosive lenses, development of
245–6
,
255
,
257
,
285
,
291
,
312
,
414
,
365

Expressen
(periodical)
338

Eyach, River
271

F-l nuclear reactor
420–2
,
432
,
448

F-2 plutonium reactor
420
,
448

Falkenhorst, Generaloberst Nikolaus von
174
,
201

Far Eastern Commission
387

Farm Hall
170
,
342–3
,
354–6
,
486–7

Farrell, Nicholas
155
,
485

fascism
144
,
252
,
486

‘Fat Man’,
see
bombs

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
53
,
145
,
165
,
183
,
186
,
193–4
,
206–7
,
224
,
299
,
311
,
364
,
384
,
402
,
413–14
,
423
,
429–31
,
452
,
458
,
465–7
,
475–6
,
482
,
484

Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians (FAECT)
146
,
183–4
,
194