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Other Publications

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Angewandte Chemie

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Economist

Harper’s

Illustrated London News

Lancet

Leatherneck (US. Marine Corps magazine)

life

Look

Los Alamos Science

Nature

New Republic

New Scientist

New York Review of Books

Observer

Philosophical Magazine

Physics Today

Physics World

Punch

Radio Times

Scientific American

Der Spiegel

Time

U.S. News EWorld Report

Vanity Fair

Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine

United Kingdom

Daily Express

Daily Mail

Daily Mirror

Daily Telegraph

Guardian

Independent

Liverpool Daily Post

Times

United States

Baltimore Sun

Chicago-Sun Times

Kansas City Star and Times

Los Angeles Times

New York Times

Washington Post

Other

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Le Monde

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Abelson, Philip, 154, 163

Academic Assistance Council, 94, 95

Academy of Science of Stockholm, 20

Academy of Sciences, France, 17

Academy of Sciences, U.S., 17

Accelerator, 70, 76, 92, 115, 212

Aerial warfare, 7, 103, 172, 259-61, 264, 328, 329

civilian targets of, see Civilian targets of aerial warfare

firestorms, 152-53, 230, 231n, 260

Hague Convention and, 6

World War I and, 7, 52-53

Aftenblader , 312-13

Aioi Bridge, Hiroshima, 127, 128 , 301, 304, 324

Air Defence Research Committee, 139

Akers, Wallace, 182, 232

Alanbrookc, Lord, 287, 332

Albania, 122

Albert, Prince, 23

Allier, Lieutenant Jacques, 146-47

Allison, Samuel, 169

Alpha rays, 25, 32, 43

Rutherfords study of, 33

Alsos mission, 265-73, 314

Alvarez, Luis, 218, 243, 290, 293

American Communist Parts, 211

American Physical Society, 125

Anderson, Carl, 90-91

Anderson, Sir John, 182

Annalcn der Physik , 39

Anti-Semitism, 41, 41n, 78, 329

in Austria, 105-10

Einstein and, 61, 87

in Hungary, 67, 68, 117

in Nazi Germany, see Nazi Germany, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

Appleton, Edward, 138, 139

Argonne Laboratory, 221

Armstrong, Henry Edward, 32

Arnold, General Henry H. “Hap,” 332

Arnold, William A., 114

Artificial radioactivity, 91-93, 95, 99-100, 134, 325

ASDIC (Anti Submarine Detection Investigation Committee), 51

Ashbridge, Lieutenant Colonel Whitney, 212n

Aston, Francis, 55

Actinium, 19

Atom, the

belief in indivisibility of, 26-27, 31

latent energy of, 32

neutrons see Neutrons

nucleus of, see Nucleus of the atom

protons, see Protons

Rutherford-Bohr model of, 44, 48, 48

Rutherford’s discoveries, 36, 44

splitting the, 54, 76-77

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), U.S., 317-18

Atomic physics, 74, 81

end of golden age of, 85

in the 1920s, centers of, 55-56, 60

Atomic weapons, 4, 75, 94, 99, 118, 139-44

chain reaction required for, see Nuclear chain reaction

defensive, envisioned as, 137, 140, 143

“Fat Man,” see “Fat Man” (plutonium bomb)