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Frisch-Peierls memorandum, 143-44, 150, 153, 171-72, 326

human consequences of, consideration of, 143, 144, 171-72, 183

“Little Bov” see “Little Box” (uranium-fueled bomb)

moral issues, see Moral issues, military use of atomic weapons

programs to development, see names of individual countries and projects, e.g. Manhattan Project

slow-neutron process and, 100, 138, 198

uranium isotopes and, ice U-245; U-238

“what ifs,” 425-39

world reaction to use of, 312-17

Aubert, Axel, 146, 147

Auer Company, 162-63, 267, 269

Auger, Pierre, 240

Austin, Sir Herbert, 135

Austria, 104

anti-Semitism and Meitner’s fleeing of, 105-10

Austro-Hungarian Empire, collapse of, 67, 116

B-17 Flying Fortress, 255

B-47, 322

Bacher, Robert, 213

Bacteriological weapons, 103

Bagge, Erich, 271, 273

German nuclear weapons program and, 156-57, 158, 216

Bainbridge, Kenneth, 284

Harwich, Heinz, 321

BBC, 315

Becquerel, Henri, 12, 15-16, 20, 26, 27, 43

Becquerel rays, see Radioactivity

Belgian Congo, uranium mines of, 129, 130,194

Belgium, 267

Berg, Morris “Moe,” 269-71, 270

Beria, Lavrenty, 200

Berlin, Germany, 230-41, 264, 264

atomic science in, 55, 60

Berliner, Arnold, 106, 181

Berlin Technical Institute, 117

Berlin University, 188

Bernhardt, Sarah, 57

Beryllium, 73

Beser, Jacob, 256-57, 294, 300, 301, 302

Beta rays, 25, 32, 43

Beta strontium, 221

Bethe, Hans, 74, 126, 140, 166, 179, 211, 212, 214, 269, 275, 284, 285, 322, 338

after the war, 319

background of, 214

Heisenberg and, 180

Los Alamos and, 213, 214-15, 239-40, 326, 328

praise for Oppenheimer, 220-21

Bethe, Rose, 214, 217

Rirkbeck College, London, 94

Birmingham University, 139, 140, 142, 225-26

Blackett, Patrick, 94

Bock’s Car , 410. 444

Bohr, Aage, 179, 180, 229, 229-30

Bohr, Christian, 85 , 90

Bohr, Harald, 227

Rohr, Margrethe, 45 , 150, 177

escape from Copenhagen, 227-28

Bohr, Niels, 5, 42-46, 45, 56, 57, 67, 74, 78, 85, 86 , 94, 112, 149, 159, 229 , 326, 327, 328

assistance to Jewish scientific refugees, 94, 107, 108, 110

complementarity thesis, 67, 326

described, 42, 338, 339

escape from Copenhagen, 227-29, 230

fear of nuclear arms race, 246-48

Heisenberg Copenhagen meeting of 1941, 5, 173-81, 321, 336, 339

Los Alamos and, 226-27, 229-30

Nazi occupation of Denmark and, 149-50

Nobel Prize for Physics, 64

nuclear fission and, 114, 115, 124-25, 133

postwar career, 470

Rutherford Bohr model of the atom, 44, 48, 48

Rutherford’s death and, 98

theory of electrons, 44 46

at University of Copenhagen, see University of Copenhagen, Institute for Theoretical Physics

World War II and, 124

Born, Max, 63, 64. 64, 71, 86-87, 88, 89, 94, 95, 126, 225

Bosch, Carl, 108

Bothe, Walther, 73, 74, 161 , 769

German atomic weapons program and, 157, 158, 160, 162, 337

Bourgeois, Henry, 41

Boxer Rebellion, 29, 194

Bragg, Lawrence, 140

Bridgman, Percy, 125-26

Briggs, Lynam J., 147, 166, 168

Britain, 103

aerial warfare and, 53

Anglo-American cooperation on atomic weapon research, 169-70, 171, 172-73, 182-83, 223-26, 229-30, 249, 280-81, 294, 319, 426-27, 338

Boers and, 27-28

German nuclear weapons program and, 202

intelligence, 202, 227, 282, 320

Maud Report, see Maud Committee and Maud Report

nuclear weapons research and, 132-33, 138-44, 150-55, 169, 182-83, 200, 229-30, 314, 331

scientific delegation to the U.S., 1940, 151-52

Special Operations Executive (SOE), 205-4

Tube Alloys Project, 182, 229-30

World War II, 4, 138, 152

British Admiralty, patent for nuclear chain reaction, 118, 132

British Air Ministry, 53, 139, 152

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 94

British Chemical Society, 141

British Department of Scientific anti Industrial Research, 138

British Lancaster bomber, 257n , 258

Broompark , 145, 147, 148, 162

Brown, Walter, 227

Brun, Jomar, 202, 204

Brussels, Belgium, 267

B-29 Super Fortress, 255, 255n, 261

modification to carry the bomb, 256, 257-58

Bukharin, Nikolay, 82

Bush, Vannevar, 170, 233

Interim Committee and, 276, 278

U S. nuclear weapons program and, 170, 171, 172-73, 183, 184, 191, 192, 193, 215

Byers, Ebert M., 244-45

Byrnes, James, 274, 276, 277-78, 279, 280, 282, 287, 311, 327, 332, 334, 335, 338

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