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Der Bund (The League) 192, 194–5

doctoral thesis 159, 160–62

doomsday bomb xvii–xviii, 20–22, 24–5, 26, 27, 129, 352, 364, 374–9, 382–95, 401–2, 405–7, 411, 413, 416, 422, 432

as enemy alien 273, 278–9

in England 210, 211–23, 230, 234–5, 235–6

family 166

in fiction and film 292

on Franck Committee 325

friendship with Einstein xx, 19, 20, 157–9, 161, 170–72, 192–4, 261–3, 323

friendship with Shils 26–7

friendship with Wigner 5, 157–8, 160, 164–6, 179, 195, 234, 255, 260, 276

and H-bomb 15, 20–23

income 170–71, 172, 176, 272

at Institute for Biological Sciences

430–31

inventions 164, 166, 169–70

involvement in politics 191,

408

journey from Berlin 209

journey to Berlin 149–51

lack of a home 151, 195

Life profile 408

literary influences xx, 115, 164–5, 190–91, 193–4, 195–8, 201–2, 205, 218–23

meeting with James Byrnes

323–4, 344

meeting with Khrushchev 429

meeting with Rutherford 234–5

‘The Mined Cities’ 406

move to United States 254–9

‘My Trial as a War Criminal’ 351–2

and nuclear chain reaction 216–23, 231, 234–6, 255, 257–63

and nuclear fission 254–9

obituaries 431–2

objections to use of atomic bomb

23, 321, 323–8, 352–3

opinion of Los Alamos 287

optimism 420–21

personal qualities and appearance 26–7, 149, 158, 162, 165, 276, 399

petition opposing use of atomic

bomb 326–8

political views 191, 212–13, 355

post-war activism 27, 354–5,

406, 408, 412

Pugwash Conference 406

relationship with Fermi 7–8, 163,

174, 258, 268, 280

relationship with the military 266, 274, 278–9, 354

relationships with women 210–11

switch to biology 195, 354, 431

trip to United States 177–8, 179–80, 191

University of Chicago Round Table broadcast 18–24, 352, 374, 386

The Voice of the Dolphins 383, 431

warning letter to Roosevelt 261–3, 266–7, 344

‘What Is Wrong With Us?’ memo

276–7

work at Columbia 259, 272–3

work methods 160–61, 163–4,

215, 230

work on refrigerators 170–73

in World War I 107

Szilard, Trude see Weiss, Gertrud (Trude)

Tanaka, Tomoyuki 370

tanks 106–7

tear gas 86, 97, 117, 228

Teller, Edward xx–xxi, 19, 235,

249, 257, 273, 276, 301, 408

Advisory Committee for Uranium 267, 268

and CP-1 280–81

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and Dr Strangelove 28, 364, 391, 424–5, 426

and Einstein 262

Enrico Fermi Award 419

in Germany 159, 176, 226

and H-bomb xx, 14–15, 281, 282, 355–7, 358–60, 368, 371–2, 414

ideas for weapons 364

The Legacy of Hiroshima 391–2

literary influences 226

in London 213, 214

Manhattan Project 287, 305, 306, 354

and nuclear fission 260

Our Nuclear Future 391

personal qualities 355–6

political views 355

Szilard’s obituary 431–2

and Szilard’s petition 326–7

Trinity test309, 310

and Tsar Bomba 410

work with Bohr 213–14

Tenn, William, ‘The Sickness’ 388

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, Locksley Hall 243–4, 316–17

terrorism 200, 242, 344, 349, 384, 438

Them! 73, 371

thermodynamics, laws of 57, 74, 161, 175

thermonuclear weapons see H-bomb

Thing, The 380–81

Things to Come 204

Thomas, Edward 101

Thomson, George 376–7

Thomson, J.J.62–3, 123, 235, 376

thorium 64, 65–6

Tizard, Henry 270

Tokyo 319–20

Train, Arthur, and Robert Williams Wood, The Man Who Rocked the Earth 126–7, 128 , 129–31, 134, 167, 277, 411

transuranic elements 251, 255

Trinity test 40, 307, 308–16, 309 , 312 , 368

Tripler, Charles E. 56–7, 66

Truman, President Harry S 13–14, 111, 242–3, 309, 316–17, 323,

328, 340, 353, 354, 357, 415

‘Tube Alloys’ 271

Tsar Bomba superbomb 408–9, 410

Twain, Mark 153

2001: A Space Odyssey 416, 417

Ulam, Stanislaw 358, 359, 371

underground bunkers 271, 349–50, 424, 392–3, 409–10, 415, 424

see also fallout shelters

Union Carbide 306

Unit 731 245–6, 305

United Kingdom

atomic bomb and H-bomb development 342–3, 371–3, 437

cobalt bomb 375

estimates of effects of nuclear attack on 343, 372, 373

as target for Soviet missiles 409

United States

arms race 323–4, 401, 407

biological weapons 241–2

fears of nuclear attack on 343–4

first-strike strategy 353

nuclear tests 13, 35, 127, 129, 359–60, 362, 365–8, 371–2, 374, 378, 380, 386, 394

purpose of first atomic bombs 274, 321, 322, 324, 325

University of Chicago

CP-13–11, 5 , 12–13, 33, 34, 173–4, 274, 275 , 280–81, 307, 419–20

University of Chicago Round Table xvii–xviii, 17–24, 352, 374, 386, 400

uranium 58–60, 231

in CP-1 6–7

fission 6–7, 236, 251–4

sources 261

uranium-235 30, 36, 305 in a breeder reactor 175 in a chain reaction 236, 307 critical mass 269, 296, 307, 329 fission 6–7, 289 separation 34, 259, 260, 269, 270, 273, 274, 289–90, 305 see also atomic bomb (A-bomb)

uranium-238 174, 175, 259, 274, 289 Urey, Harold C. 16, 189, 272, 273,

281, 323, 406

V- 2 rocket 189–90, 209, 283, 284 , 285, 290–91, 424–5

van Vogt, A.E., ‘The Great Engine’

292

Verein für Raumschifffahrt 189

Verne, Jules 51, 106, 116, 124, 167, 289, 385

Vickers, C.E., ‘The Trenches’

107

Vidal, Gore 286

von Braun, Wernher 28, 189–90, 205, 209, 211, 283, 285, 356, 408, 424, 425 , 426

von Clausewitz, Carl 200, 414

von Falkenhayn, Erich 119

von Halban, Hans 258

von Laue, Max 154, 155, 160, 161, 170, 213

von Neumann, John xx, 176, 354, 360–64, 363 , 407, 414, 441

as AEC Commissioner 362 at Princeton 214, 361

as a child prodigy 166, 361

and Dr Strangelove 28, 363, 424, 425, 426

and Einstein’s statistical mechanics course 159

and hydrogen bomb 358, 360

and ICBMs 362

move to United States 179, 207

and plutonium bomb 291, 308

political views 355, 360, 362, 407

supernova theory 373–4, 384

work on computers 358, 361

von Neumann, Michael 363

von Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich 180–81, 182 , 282–3

Vonnegut, Kurt 319

Slaughterhouse 5 319

vril 55–6, 72, 107

Walker, William 119

Wallace, Bess 242

Wallis, Barnes 389

Walton, Ernest 188

Wannsee Conference 91

The War of the Worlds radio broadcast 247–9, 345

Wattenberg, Albert 275 , 419

weapons of mass destruction, origin of phrase 227

Weart, Spencer 68

Weil, George 9

Weiler, A.H. 411

Weill, Kurt, The Threepenny Opera

152

Weiss, Gertrud (Trude) 210–11, 254, 273–4, 398–9, 400, 430

Weisskopf, Victor 151, 153, 176, 260, 314–15, 316, 400

Welles, Orson 248

Wells, H.G.xx, 51, 77–8, 115, 122, 164–5, 167, 193–4, 220 , 227, 231, 255, 277, 328, 352, 385, 416

The Invisible Man 49, 50, 88, 185, 236

Island of Dr Moreau 51

‘The Land Ironclads’ 107

‘Lord of the Dynamos’ 54–5

A Modern Utopia 193

The Open Conspiracy 193, 194