The First War of Physics (88 page)

Mein Kampf
(book)
85

plot to assassinate
278

Hobson, Verna
186

Hokkaido
359

Holland
3
,
34
,
63
,
90
,
143
,
264
,
273

Hollis, Roger
384

Holloway, Marshall
470

Holt, John
73

Hoover, Herbert
420

Hoover, J. Edgar
53
,
193
,
384

Hopkins, Harry
52
,
180
,
193
,
214

Hotel Excelsior
268

House of Commons
392

House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
464–6

Howard, Charles Henry George (‘Jack’)
69–72

Hungarian Workers’ Party
455

Hungary, People’s Republic of
387
,
455

Hunters Point
319

Huy, town of
341
,
352

Hyde Park aide-mémoire
397–9

Hydro
(ferry),
see also
heavy water
and
Norwegian resistance
231–2
,
261
,
271

hydrodynamics
235
,
246

hydrogen bomb,
see
bombs

I.G. Farben
2
,
33
,
264
,
271

Idland, Kasper
169–72
,
201

IMO
, SS (ship)
95

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
84

Imperial College, London
64

implosion

bomb
211
,
246
,
291
,
420

problem
210
,
245
,
257

theory
192
,
242

Independent Company No. One,
see also

Norwegian resistance
117

Indianapolis
, USS (ship)
319–20

Innsbruck
29

Installation A (nuclear reactor)
432

Installation B (separation plant)
448

Installation No.
558
(nuclear laboratory)
419

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
412
,
414
,
447
,
468
,
479

Institute for Chemical Physics, Leningrad
247

Institute for Chemical Physics, Moscow
442

Institute of Physics, Berlin (the Virus House)
39

intelligence

American
176
,
193
,
195
,
223–4
,
227
,
261
,
273–4
,
276
,
322
,
324
,
440
,
475

British
83–4
,
118
,
132
,
174
,
218
,
259–60
,
253
,
340
,
342
,
372
,
382–4
,
425
,
454
,
458

Canadian
394

French
33
,
274

German
26
,
69
,
91
,
99

Norwegian
119
,
135

Soviet
79
,
103–4
,
145
,
168
,
175–6
,
182–7
,
207
,
224
,
241
,
249
,
296
,
313
,
361
,
362–3
,
365
,
380
,
392
,
425
,
433
,
482–3

Swedish
212

intelligence-gathering
119
,
274
,
342
,
365

iodine
283

Ioffe, Abram
175
,
362

Irtysh, River
449

Isle of Man
66
,
98

isotopes

Li-6
444
,
473

Li-7
473

Pu-239
242–3
,
317

Pu-240
242–3
,
252

Te-135
283

Th-232
363

thorium
363
,
399
,
418

U-235
13–20
,
29–32
,
36–8
,
45
,
50–3
,
59–67
,
72–8
,
93–5
,
99
,
105–10
,
120–3
,
137
,
140
,
149
,
152
,
159–64
,
176
,
189–91
,
200
,
208–10
,
226
,
235
,
242–3
,
248
,
254
,
260
,
279–86
,
291
,
319
,
333–5
,
345–6
,
351
,
366–7
,
420

U-236
14
,
283

U-238
6
,
14
,
29–30
,
36–7
,
45
,
49–53
,
59–60
,
78
,
80
,
93
,
99
,
122
,
189
,
243
,
444
,
471

U-239
14
,
29
,
36–7
,
49
,
51

xenon, Xe-135
284

Zr-98
283

Italy
35
,
112–13
,
261
,
266–8
,
273
,
339
,
387

Ivanov, Pyotr
183–6

Iwo Jima
321
,
328

Izmir, missile base at
488

Japan
111–13
,
182–3
,
231
,
256
,
301
,
305–6
,
309–12
,
318–20
,
323–30
,
334–7
,
344
,
360
,
366
,
384
,
387
,
398
,
446
,
462

Jensen, Hans
76–7
,
87
,
126
,
132

Jews

anti-Semitism
2
,
11
,
96

concentration camps
4
,
25
,
57
,
212
,
266
,
273
,
341
,
463–4

the final solution
265

German racial laws against
3

ghettos
265

Jewish physicists
1–2
,
24
,
24
,
82
,
84
,
87
,
143

Jewish scientists
3
,
78
,
240
,
252

Joachimsthal uranium mines, Czechoslovakia
32
,
292

Joe-1,
see
First Lightning test

John Reed Society, the
252

Johnson, Louis
456

Johnson, Lieutenant Lyall
193
,
197

Joliot-Curie, Frédéric
15
,
69
,
274

Jordan, Pascual
98

Jungk, Robert
90
,
485–7

Brighter than a Thousand Suns
(book)
90
,
485

K-25 plant
209
,
241
,
280

Kaftanov, Sergei
160

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute,
see also
Berlin
2–3
,
31
,
38–9
,
120–3
,
128
,
131
,
264–6
,
270
,
287
,
295
,
353

Kaiser Wilhelm Society
24
,
121

Kamchatka Peninsula
451

Kapitza, Peter
79
,
251
,
361–2
,
370–4
,
442

Kayser, Fredrik
169
,
171–2
,
201

Kazakhstan
449

KB-11 (laboratory)
419
,
442

Keitel, Wilhelm
121

Kellex Corporation
227

Kellogg engineering firm, the
227

Kennan, George
391
,
457
,
478

Kennedy, John F.
488

Kennedy, Robert
490

Kent, Maud Ray
214

Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert
267–8

Ketsu Go
(military strategy)
323
,
335

Khariton, Yuli
184
,
247–9
,
292
,
285–6
,
361–2
,
370
,
417–20
,
426–8
,
442
,
445
,
449
,
451

Kheifets, Gregori
183–4
,
206

Khrushchev, Nikita
488–91

Kidlington
104

Kiel University,
see
universities

Kiev
89

Kikoin, Issak
247–8
,
295–6
,
362
,
418

King, William Lyon Mackenzie
379

King’s College London
363
,
382

Kistiakowsky, George
110
,
244–7
,
254–6
,
284–6
,
314–18
,
423

Kjelstrup, Arne
see also
Grouse party
134
,
171
,
202

Kleenex
364–5

Klein, Oskar
212

Klopstech, johanna
425

Kokura Arsenal, the
301
,
329
,
335

Konopinski, Emil
146–8

Korea
470

North Korea
468
,
492

South Korea
468

Korsching, Horst
78
,
293
,
340
,
343–4
,
348
,
351
,
356

Kosice
291

Kowarski, Lew
15
,
35
,
69–72
,
95–6

Krakow
265

Kremer, Simon
104

Kremlin, the
175
,
386
,
422
,
445

Kroger, Peter and Helen
483

Ku Klux Klan
464

Kuczynski, Jurgen
97
,
103–4
,
425

Kummersdorf
288

Kungälv, village of
4–6
,
15
,
317
,
461

Kurchatov, Boris
247
,
448

Kurchatov, Igor
17
,
159
,
175
,
247

Kurnakov, Sergei
253–4
,
257
,
423
,
482

Kvasnikov, Leonid
183
,
206
,
254
,
311
,
313
,
453

Kyoto
301–3

Kyshtym
420

Kyushu
324
,
331

LA-551 report, the
406

laboratories

Auer
32
,
35
,
275
,
296
,
418

Bayo Canyon
252

Cavendish (Cambridge)
57
,
143
,
483

Gottow
120
,
123
,
203

Hechingen
270–1
,
276

KB-11
419
,
442

‘Hill’, the (Los Alamos)
167
,
187–8
,
196
,
206
,
210
,
229
,
232–3
,
244
,
252
,
256
,
279–80
,
287
,
300
,
364
,
408
,
413
,
424
,
427

Met Lab
138–9
,
142
,
146–7
,
151
,
155
,
163
,
180
,
254
,
280
,
282–3
,
285
,
299–302
,
307
,
310
,
363
,
401
,
420–1

Palmer (Princeton)
13

Parajito Canyon
407

‘Rad Lab’ (Berkeley)
12
,
47–8
,
107

Stadtilm
288–9
,
341

Tracerlab (Berkeley)
451

Ladenburg, Rudolph
106

Lamphere, Robert
423
,
430
,
451–4
,
458
,
467
,
480

The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent’s Story
(book)
452

Lansdale, John
193
,
196–7
,
208
,
223
,
259
,
261–3
,
293

Larson, Project
261

Las Vegas
364

Latimer, Wendell
478

Laue, Max von
80–1
,
293
,
340–1
,
348–9
,
351
,
355–6

Lawrence, Ernest
5
,
12
,
47–50
,
58
,
62
,
66
,
74
,
105–10
,
137–40
,
143–5
,
157
,
164–7
,
196
,
208
,
218
,
226
,
254
,
267
,
282–3
,
293
,
303
,
309
,
316
,
318