Richard Rhodes - The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Los Alamos and, 460, 464, 468, 578

Oppenheimer and, 468

conflagration, 599

Connelly, Matthew, 636

Coolidge, Calvin, 618

Coolidge, William D., 363, 367, 373–74

Copenhagen, University of, 54, 58, 69, 114

Corbino, Orso M., 207–9, 213, 219, 231, 241

cosmic rays, 540–41

Coster, Dirk, 115, 235–36

Counterfeiters, The (Gide), 667

Courant, Richard, 126

Covey, Elwin H., 413

Creutz, Edward, 657, 662

Creutz test, 656–58, 661–63

cross-section measurements, 282–83

Cunningham, Burris, 409, 413–15

Curie, Marie Sklodowska, 191, 200, 202, 247 n , 603

death of, 214–15

Goldschmidt and, 579

polonium isolated by, 118, 158, 578

radioactivity research of, 42, 44–45, 47–48, 118, 158

Rutherford and, 42, 44–45, 84

Curie, Pierre, 42, 44–45, 47–48, 118, 578

cyclotron, 259, 268–69, 344, 404

Lawrence and, 148, 165, 240, 349, 360, 487–88

Nishina’s building of, 580–81

Szilard on, 21, 23

Wilson and, 476

Czechoslovakia, 244–46, 292

Dagbladet , 64

D’Agostino, Oscar, 212–13, 216, 241

Daladier, Edouard, 245–46

Dallet, Joe, 446

Dalton, John, 46

Danbara High School field hospital, 727

Dansk Students Eventyr, En (Møller), 58–60, 132

Dante Alighieri, 594

Darwin, Charles (grandfather), 82

Darwin, Charles G. (grandson), 82–83

Dautry, Raoul, 327

David Copperfield (Dickens), 65

Davis, Nuel Pharr, 125–26

D-Day (June 6, 1944), 531

Debye, Peter, 208, 331–32

de Gaulle, Charles, 521, 606

Democritus, 29

Dempster, Arthur J., 285

Denmark, 328–29, 481–84

Depression, Great, 445

Derby, Edward George Villiers, Earl of, 99

de Silva, Peer, 571

deuterium, 270, 311

in hydrogen bomb, 563–64

thermonuclear reaction in, 416–19, 466, 540, 543–44

deuterons, 354

Dialogues from Hell Between Montesquieu and Machiavelli (Joly), 183

Dickens, Charles, 65

Diebner, Kurt, 296, 311, 344, 517, 607

Dirac, Paul A. M., 149

“Disintegration of uranium by neutrons: a new type of nuclear reaction” (Meitner and Frisch), 264

Dõmei, 745

Donne, John, 571–72

Doolittle, James, 407, 588

Doré, Gustave, 595

Dragon experiment, 611–12, 651

Dresden, bombing of, 592–93, 599, 601

DuBridge, Lee A., 416

Dudley, John H., 450

Duisberg, Carl, 85, 93

Dunning, John R.:

Fermi and, 268–70, 273, 289 n

isotope separation and, 289 n , 297–98, 332–33, 380–81, 492, 500

Urey and, 380–81

Duzenbury, Wyatt, 704–5

Ecce Homo (Grosz), 17

Eddington, Arthur S., 169, 370

Eden, Anthony, 530–31

Edict of Tolerance (1782), 179

Edison, Charles, 293

Edward I, King of England, 178

Ehrenfest, Paul, 54, 127, 168, 187, 193, 206

Eichmann, Adolf, 475

E. I. du Pont de Nemours, 431–32, 439, 496–99, 503, 546, 557–60, 603, 649

Eighth Air Force, U.S., 513

VIIIth Bomber Command, U.S., 471

Einstein, Albert, 17, 107, 130, 192, 293, 297

background of, 168–73

Bohr and, 54, 84, 115, 132–33, 170, 173

Born and, 132, 170, 173

on Brownian motion, 19

Bush’s criticism of, 635–36

on electron theory, 76

emigration of, 185–87, 195–96

German citizenship renounced by, 170, 171, 187

on home refrigeration, 20–21, 174

as international celebrity, 168–70

inventions of, 14, 20–21

Marie Curie eulogized by, 215

Meitner and, 80, 259–60

nuclear chain reactions and, 297, 305–8, 312–13

Pais and, 113, 152, 173

on photoelectric effect, 70–71, 128, 363–64

Planck and, 168, 172–73, 174

on quantum mechanics, 132

relativity theory of, 152, 168–73, 185–86, 260

Roosevelt and, 303–4, 305–9, 312–14, 331–32, 635–36

Snow on, 168–69, 304–5

Szilard and, 14, 16, 20–21, 169, 174, 303–4, 305–8, 312–14, 331–32, 635–36

on uncertainty principle, 132–33

Wigner and, 303–4, 305

Zionism of, 173–74, 636

Einstein, Elsa, 174, 186, 195, 307

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 531, 629–30, 688

Eisenstein, Sergei, 186

“eka-osmium,” 347

electromagnetic isotope separation plants, 405–6, 487–91, 495, 500, 600–601

electromagnetism, Maxwell on, 30

electron theory:

Bohr’s studies on, 63–64, 67–69, 73–76, 83–85, 113–14, 116–17, 128–29

Einstein on, 76

ground state in, 74

radiochemistry and, 67–68

Rutherford’s studies on, 40–41, 51

Thomson’s studies on, 38–39, 65, 72

Elektron bomb, 100

elementary quantum of action, 70

Eliot, George, 120

Eliot, T. S., 123

Elizabeth, Queen of Belgium, 196, 303–4, 305

Elliot, Gil, 102–3, 746

Elsasser, Walter, 18, 188

Elugelab:

“emission of protons of high velocity from hydrogenous materials irradiated with very penetrating gamma rays, The” (I. and F. Joliot-Curie), 162

Engles, Friedrich, 446

Enola Gay , 703–5, 707–9

Ent, Uzal, 583–84, 652

entropy, 30

Eötvös Prize, 15

Erikson, Erik, 169, 172

Erzgebirge, 118

Esau, Abraham, 402, 513

“Estimate of the size of an actual separation plant” (Simon), 343

Ethiopia, 240–41

Eucken, Arnold, 190

European theater, 601

casualties in, 593, 629–30

Pacific theater vs., 517–20, 602

Eve, A. S., 53, 54, 159, 230

Ewald, Paul, 416

“Explosion of an inhomogeneous uranium-heavy water pile” (Bethe and Teller), 524

Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, 457

Farrell, Thomas F., 626, 699, 736

Trinity and, 659–60, 663–64, 667–69, 676, 687

Fat Man (implosion bomb), 577–79, 582, 590, 680

arming of, 665, 667

assembling of, 659–61, 663, 681, 700, 737–39

casing for, 658

castings for, 656–58

combat delivery of, 737–40

core assembly of, 658–59

designs of, 589–90, 655

detonation of, 740

detonators for, 654–55, 661, 665

dummy tests of, 586, 588–89, 639, 656–57

explosive yield of, 643, 656, 669, 677

initiator for, 578–80, 655

jettisoning of, 631

Pacific shipping arrangements for, 692, 693, 699, 743, 745

testing of, see Trinity

Faust (Goethe), 166–67

Feather, Norman, 159, 161–63

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 571

Feis, Herbert, 690, 698

Feld, Bernard, 396

Ferebee, Thomas, 704, 707, 708–10

Fergusson, Francis, 122, 124–25

Fermi, Enrico, 126, 190, 275, 373

administration of atomic bomb project and, 422, 423

Herbert Anderson and, 280–81, 288, 291, 298–301, 333–34, 395, 397, 433, 436–37

assimilation of, 351–52

awards and honors of, 243–44, 248–50, 293

background of, 204–9

Bainbridge and, 664–65

beta-decay theory of, 208–9, 230–32, 444

Bethe and, 206, 219–20, 568

Bohr and, 243–44, 265, 289 n , 568

Compton and, 363, 379–80, 394, 399–400, 432–33, 439

critical-mass calculations of, 379–80, 382

Dunning and, 268–70, 273, 289 n

emigration of, 240–42, 248–50, 264, 429

Fat Man’s initiator and, 579

hobbies enjoyed by, 567–68

Interim Committee and, 630, 696

Libby and, 231–32, 363, 428, 436, 499, 568

Los Alamos and, 465, 565–68

John Marshall and, 428, 499, 557–58

neutron-bombardment experiments of, 209–13, 217–20, 226–27, 231

nuclear chain reactions and, 280–81, 289 n , 290–91, 295–96, 298–303, 317, 331, 333–34, 338, 345, 365, 394