The First War of Physics (93 page)
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USSR,
see
Soviet Union
V-l flying bomb
127
Vannikov, Boris
361–2
,
432
,
442
,
445
Vasilevsky, Colonel Lev
373
Vemork heavy water plant
33
,
35
,
77
,
82–5
,
95
,
117–18
,
123
,
132–4
,
152
,
155
,
202
,
215
,
217
,
231
,
271
,
348
vengeance weapon,
see
V-l flying bomb
Versailles
341
Via Parioli
269
Vidal, Gore
166
Villa Argentina, Le Vésinet
341
Virginia Military Institute, the
193
Virus House, see
Institute of Physics, Berlin
Vittles, Operation,
see
operations
German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power
, 1939–1949 (book)
76
Walton, Ernest
74
War Mobilisation Board
301
Warm Springs, Georgia
286
Jewish ghetto in
265
Washburn, Mary Ellen
224
—5
Washington
18
,
42
,
49
,
54
,
93
,
109
,
131
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133
,
150
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179
,
181–2
,
193
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207–8
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210
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214
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224
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228
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244
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249
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263
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268
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277
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302
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308
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336
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385–6
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390–3
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398
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402
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408
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412
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416
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426
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429
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476
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484
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488
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490
Weilun
19
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von
29
,
33
,
36–8
,
49–51
,
75
,
89–1
,
87–8
,
91–2
,
120–3
,
126–7
,
265–6
,
274–5
,
277
,
287
,
289
,
293
,
340
,
345
,
347–51
,
356
,
486
Weizsäcker, Ernst von
29
,
88
,
266
Welles, Orson
465
The World Set Free
(book)
44
Welsh, Lieutenant-Commander Eric
83
,
170
,
199
,
259
Wendover airbase
320
Weserübung, Operation,
see
operations
Western Union Defence Organisation
435
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
162
Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri
391
Wheeler, John
11
,
13–14
,
20
,
29
,
45
,
59–61
,
66
,
159
,
282–4
White House, the
111
,
300
,
399
,
467
Whitehead, Detective Inspector William
394
Whitman, Walt
289
Leaves of Grass
(book)
289
Wigner, Eugene
18–19
,
41–3
,
53
,
98
,
106
,
131
,
146
,
156
,
282
,
389
Wilmington, Delaware
282
Wilson, Colonel John ‘Jack’
134
,
169
,
215
Wilson, Woodrow
401
Wirtz, Karl
38
,
75
,
77–8
,
83
,
121
,
123
,
126
,
132
,
270
,
288
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293
,
340
,
348
,
351
,
355–6
Witzell, Admiral Karl
126
X Division (for ‘eXplosives’)
246
,
255
,
284
X-10 nuclear reactor,
see also
Oak Ridge
242–3
,
282
Xe-135
284
xenon
283–4
X-ray photography
285
Y-12 electro-magnetic separation plant, Oak Ridge
208–9
Yakovlev, Anatoly,
see
Yatskov, Anatoly
Yalta conference, the
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku
Yatskov, Anatoly
182
,
241–2
,
254–5
,
257
,
290–1
,
311–13
,
365–6
,
407
,
423
,
425
,
431
Yellow Beach
321
Yokohama
301
Young Communist League
194
,
252
,
255
,
465
,
482
Zabotin, Colonel Nikolai
363–3
,
377–8
,
380–2
,
393–4
Zarubin, Vasily (cover name Vasily Zubilin)
182–3
,
186–7
,
193
,
206–7
Zavenyagin, Colonel General Avram
292
,
296
,
361
,
432
,
449
,
473
Zeldovich, Yakov
247–8
,
442–5
,
449
Zernov, General Pavel Mikhailovich
419
,
428
,
449–50
Zhukov, General Georgei
111
zirconium
283
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