The First War of Physics (89 page)

Le Conte Hall
147
,
164

Leeb, General Emil
126

Leiden, town of
143
,
273

Leipunskii, Aleksandr
247

Leipzig University,
see
universities

LeMay, Major General Curtis
320–2
,
440–1
,
445–9

‘Lend-Lease’ military aid
182–3
,
219
,
422

Lenin, V.I.
86
,
104
,
145
,
370
,
451

Leningrad
17
,
86
,
89
,
159
,
175
,
184
,
247

Institute of Chemical Physics, the
184

Physicotechnical Institute (Fiztekh)
17
,
159
,
175
,
248

Leuna, I.G. Farben works at
264
,
271

Lewis, Robert
331

Lilienthal, David
387–90
,
401–2
,
412
,
415
,
456–7
,
478

Lindemann, Frederick
17–18
,
67
,
100–1

lithium-6 deuteride
444

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

L-IV (nuclear reactor)
123–6
,
130
,
203

Livermore
473

Lomanitz, Giovanni Rossi
194–7
,
207
,
465
,
468

London
2
,
18
,
55–6
,
63–4
,
72–4
,
83
,
102–4
,
132
,
169
,
201
,
213
,
215
,
218
,
223
,
227–8
,
231
,
251
,
260
,
263
,
268
,
291
,
348
,
355
,
363
,
366
,
368–9
,
382–3
,
386
,
394
,
404
,
416
,
425
,
459
,
483

Blitz
56
,
227

Long Island
19
,
410
,
431

Los Alamos,
see also
‘Hill’, the
159
,
165–7
,
185–8
,
194–6
,
205–10
,
218
,
225–36
,
242–7
,
252–62
,
279–81
,
284–7
,
290–1
,
299–316
,
320–1
,
337–8
,
363–7
,
385
,
395
,
405–8
,
410–12
,
415
,
419
,
424
,
433
,
444–7
,
453–8
,
469–70
,
473
,
480–5

Los Angeles
412

‘Los Arzamas’,
see
Arzamas-16 nuclear facility

Low Countries, invasion of
34

Lübeck
356

Lubyanka prison
79
,
393

Luftwaffe, the
19
,
34
,
55
,
73
,
86
,
125
,
162
,
272
,
288

McCarthy, Joseph
467
,
475–6

Maclean, Donald
103
,
416
,
426

Macmillan, Harold
72

McMahon, Brien
401

the McMahon Bill
401
,
410

McMillan, Edwin
37
,
48

McMillan–Abelson paper
50
,
69
,
74

McQueen, Robert
482

‘Magic’ intelligence
322
,
324

Makhnev, General Vitaly
361
,
420

Malaya
112

Malenkov, Georgei
361
,
371
,
471–2

Malm ö
212

Malyshev, Vyacheslav
472

Måna, River
171

Manchester University,
see
universities

Manchuria
326
,
359

Manhattan Engineer District
152
,
412

Manhattan Project,
see also
atomic programmes
52
,
210
,
215
,
218
,
223–9
,
236
,
239–44
,
254
,
257
,
259–62
,
275
,
287
,
295
,
299–300
,
303–6
,
309–13
,
337–8
,
343
,
347
,
352
,
363
,
369–70
,
388–9
,
395
,
405
,
412
,
417
,
423–4
,
451–2
,
477–8
,
484–5

Manila
309

Mann, Thomas
241

Marden, Eileen
71

Marianas, the
320

Marshall, General George C.
110
,
303
,
415

Marshall Islands, the
407
,
433

Marshall Plan, the
415–16
,
424
,
434
,
435

Martinuzzi, Leo
277

Masaryk, Jan
435

Massachusetts
51
,
99
,
238
,
254
,
290
,
448
,
453

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
51
,
107
,
167
,
188
,
267
,
303
,
461

MAUD Committee, the
72–4
,
84
,
96
,
99–101
,
105
,
108–10
,
120–1
,
140
,
148–9
,
160–1
,
175
,
214
,
218

MAUD report, the
100
,
213

May, Alan Nunn (‘ALEK’)
132
,
168
,
362
,
382
,
392–3
,
404
,
424
,
381–2

May–Johnson Bill, the
401

Meitner, Lise
1–12
,
32
,
49
,
67–9
,
84
,
159
,
217
,
260
,
317
,
338
,
350
,
355–6
,
461

Mellanby, Sir Edward
101

Memorandum on the Properties of a Radioactive ‘Super-bomb’
63

Menzies, Sir Stewart
200
,
383

Merseberg, town of
264

Mesarosh, Steve,
see
Nelson, Steve

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

Metropolitan-Vickers
94

MGB, see NKGB

MI5
99
,
104
,
272
,
382–4
,
458–60

Michigan, University of,
see
universities

microwave radiation
58

Middle East, the

Milch, Field Marshal Erhard
126–7

Mironov, Vasily
206–7

MIT,
see
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Møller, Christian
11
,
89
,
266

Molotov, Viacheslav
85
,
175–6
,
251
,
318
,
322–3
,
335
,
361
,
369
,
374
,
386–7
,
390
,
442
,
471

molybdenum
283

Monsanto Chemical Company
389

Mont Blanc
, SS (ship)
95

Monte Cassino, battle for
267–8

Montgomery, General Bernard
267

Montreal project, the
181
,
363
,
400

Mordovia, Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of
419
,
427

Morrison, Philip
389
,
408

Moscow

Bolshoi Theatre
375

German assault on
86
,
89
,
111
,
160–1

Institute for Chemical Physics
442

International Lenin School
145

Laboratory No.
2

Moscow University,
see
universities

NKVD Headquarters
79

Seismological Institute
247

Moscow, River
247

Moscow Centre
103
,
255
,
419
,
425
,
452–3

Moscow Treaty,
see also
Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty
492

Møsvatn dam, the
117
,
135

Mott, Nevill
97

Mount Stewart
(ship)
70

Mountbatten, Lord Louis
133
,
136

Munich,
see also
universities
289
,
294
,
354

Murmansk
393

Mussolini, Benito
11
,
267

MVD,
see also
NKVD
79
,
432

Nagasaki
329
,
335–8
,
352
,
359
,
364
,
366
,
397
,
433
,
446
,
451
,
461–3
,
473

Nagato
(battleship)
408

Napalm
321

Naples
267
,
269

National Association of Scientific Workers
168

National Defense Research Council (NDRC)
52–3
,
105
,
107–8
,
244

National Research Council, Canadian
142

National Socialism
1
,
3
,
23
,
76
,
79
,
103
,
183
,
487

NATO,
see
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Nature
(periodical)
12
,
15
,
38

Naturwissenschaften, Die
(periodical)
3
,
12
,
84

Nazi super-weapons
262

Nazism,
see
National Socialism

Nazi–Soviet pact, the
80
,
85
,
98

Neckar, River
271

Nelson, Eldred
148

Nelson, Steve (aka Steve Mesarosh)
145
,
165
,
186
,
193–4
,
207
,
465

Neumann, John von
210
,
235
,
252
,
254
,
285
,
406
,
469
,
478

Neustadt am Glewe
296

Nevada
, USS (ship)
409

Neviansk,
see
Sverdlovsk

New German Pathfinders, the (youth movement)
23

New Mexico
166
,
187
,
196
,
228
,
241
,
244
,
255
,
286
,
311
,
314
,
316
,
319
,
343
,
364
,
429
,
440
,
467
,
486

New York
10–11
,
27
,
82
,
109
,
138
,
147
,
152
,
163
,
182–4
,
218
,
224
,
227
,
239
,
241–2
,
250
,
253–7
,
261
,
313
,
365
,
413
,
423
,
425
,
429–31
,
452–3
,
459–60
,
472
,
480–2
,
488

New York
, USS (ship)
408

New York Times
(periodical)
174

Newmont Mining Corporation
402

Nichols, Kenneth D.
152
,
243
,
328
,
476

Nier, Alfred
45
,
53
,
105

niobium
283

Nishina, Yoshio
335

Nixon, Richard M.
466

NKGB (later MGB)
241
,
311
,
313
,
432
,
481

NKVD (later MVD)
79–80
,
102–3
,
161
,
182–3
,
206–7
,
218–19
,
241
,
258
,
292
,
295
,
361–2
,
380–4
,
425
,
432–3

Nobel prize
2
,
11
,
20
,
48
,
62
,
64
,
101
,
106
,
138
,
144
,
163
,
165
,
213
,
218
,
262
,
340
,
354–5