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Storhaug, Hans
169
,
171
,
201

Strasbourg, liberation of
274–5

Strassman, Fritz
6–7
,
12
,
49
,
84
,
107
,
126
,
283
,
356
,
423

Strategic Air Command (SAC)
440–1
,
445–6
,
488–9

Strategic Defensive Reduction Treaty,
see also
Moscow Treaty
492

Strauss, Lewis
412
,
414
,
454
,
456
,
474–6
,
479

Stremsheim, Birger
169
,
171–2
,
201

Sudoplatov, Anatoly
485

Special Tasks
(book)
485

Sudoplatov, Pavel
361–2
,
367
,
370
,
373

Suess, Hans
132

Sunday Telegraph
(periodical)
433

super bombs,
see also
bombs
16
,
63
—4,
108
,
406
,
454–8

super-weapons,
see
Nazi super-weapons

Supply, Ministry of
64
,
71–2
,
94
,
227

Supreme Council for the Direction of the War
326

Suzuki, Kantaro
326–7
,
335

Svenska Dagbladet
(periodical)
174

Sverdlovsk, isotope separation facilities at
418

Swallow (Norwegian commandos)
169–70
,
201

Swan Inn, the
271

Sweden
12
,
63
,
85
,
133
,
135
,
201–2
,
212–13
,
215
,
260
,
336
,
338

Swedish Academy
355–6

Sweeney, Major Charles
335

Switzerland
58
,
131
,
143
,
260
,
262–3
,
288
,
336
,
382
,
425
,
448

Szilard, Leo
17–19
,
41–7
,
50–3
,
56
,
76
,
79
,
104
,
131
,
138
,
146
,
150–2
,
156
,
158
,
163–4
,
167
,
245
,
299–301
,
306–7
,
310
,
327
,
367
,
389
,
464
,
484

Taboshary
418

Tailfingen (town)
270
,
275
,
293

Tamm, Igor
443–5

Target Committee, the
301–2

Tashkent
418

Tatlock, Jean
144–5
,
195–6
,
224–5
,
477

Tatlock, John
225

Taylor, Geoffrey
246

Technical Council, the
362
,
374

Tehran
390

Teller, Edward
18–19
,
42
,
43
,
53–5
,
98
,
146–9
,
188
,
210
,
228
,
234–6
,
242
,
254
,
310
,
316
,
390
,
406–7
,
442
,
444
,
454–7
,
469–73
,
478–80

Teller, Mici
405

tellurium
283

Tempsford RAF base
342

Tennessee
152
,
186
,
205
,
227

Tennessee Valley Authority
388

Terboven, Josef
201–2

Terletsky, Yakov
373
,
386

Texas
290
,
422

Theoretical Division, the
235
,
242
,
257
,
445

‘Thin Man’,
see also
bombs
208
,
211
,
226

Thomas, Charles
389

Thomas, Flight Lieutenant A.E.
153

Thomson, George P.
64

Thomson, J.J.
64
,
143

Tibbets, Colonel Paul
302
,
321
,
328–31

Time
magazine
466

Times Herald
(periodical)
466

Times, The
(periodical)
79
,
174

Tinian Island
302
,
319–20

Tinnsjø, Lake
231–2

Tizard, Henry
64–5
,
152

TNT
8
,
95
,
148–9
,
190
,
228
,
243
,
305
,
312
,
316
,
318
,
333
,
336
,
345
,
409
,
410
,
434
,
446
,
451
,
471
,
489

Todt, Fritz
125

Togo, Shigenori
323–6
,
335

Tokyo
322
,
324
,
326
,
334–7
,
446

Top Policy Group
110

Toronto
3

Toyoda, Admiral Soemu
326
,
335

Tracerlab, Berkeley
451

Trafalgar Square
492

Tribune
magazine
425

Trident conference, the l81

Trieste
391

Trinity test, the
304
,
312
,
314–16
,
320–2
,
327
,
329
,
343–4
,
407
,
433
,
449
,
451

tritium
149
,
235
,
406
,
408
,
444
,
469

Tronstad, Leif
82–5
,
102
,
119
,
123–4
,
133–5
,
169–70
,
199
,
202
,
215
,
217

Trotsky, Leon
361
,
429

‘Truman Committee’, the,
see
US Senate Special
287
Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program
287

Truman, Harry S.
287
,
300–3
,
314
,
318
,
322
,
325
,
327
,
334
,
336–7
,
343
,
345
,
359
,
366
,
368–9
,
383–7
,
390–3
,
398
,
400–1
,
410–12
,
415
,
436
,
439
,
454–7
,
460
,
466–7
,
469
,
481

Truman-Attlee-King declaration
386
,
398

Tsar Bomba
(RDS-220), see also bombs
488

Tsukerman, Veniamin
426
,
428

Tube Alloys
93
,
102
,
132
,
138–42
,
146
,
167
,
168
,
175
,
179–81
,
190
,
199
,
213–14
,
217
,
227
,
242
,
259
,
295
,
352
,
382
,
393
,
460

Tübingen University,
see
universities

Tuck, James
218
,
227
,
245
,
366

Turner, Louis
50–1
,
80

Uhlenbeck, George
273

Ukrainian Physics Institute, Kharkov
79

Ulam, Stanislaw
235
,
272
,
279
,
469

Umezu, General Yoshijiro
326

United Nations
308
,
369
,
385
,
401

Atomic Energy Commission
384
,
387
,
401
,
403
,
410
,
434

Charter
400
,
416

General Assembly
386–7

Security Council
386
,
403

Un-American Activities,
see
House of

Representatives Un-American

Activities Committee (HUAC)

Union Minière, Belgium
35
,
152

universities

Amsterdam
273

Berlin
2–3
,
29
,
58

Birmingham
58

Bristol
97

California, Berkeley
5
,
12
,
37
,
47–9
,
107
,
109
,
138
,
143–8
,
165
,
176
,
184–5
,
193–7
,
206–7
,
218
,
223–4
,
226
,
234
,
314
,
407
,
413
,
451
,
466
,
470
,
477

California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
107

Cambridge
98

Columbia
11
,
18
,
27
,
42
,
44–5
,
76
,
105
,
138
,
163
,
209

Copenhagen
372

Cornell
147
,
267

Crimea State
175

Edinburgh
71
,
96–8

George Washington
12
,
18

Hamburg
1

Harvard
143

Kiel
97

Leiden
273

Leipzig
20
,
101

Liverpool
62

Manchester
64

Michigan
26
,
273

Minnesota
45

Munich
24
,
29
,
58
,
147
,
264
,
353

New Mexico
364

Princeton
9
,
11
,
13–14
,
18
,
30
,
44
,
50
,
106
,
138
,
146
,
188
,
261
,
356
,
367
,
412
,
414
,
447
,
465–6
,
468

Purdue
26

Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
99
,
395

Rome
267

Stanford, California
195

Tübingen
147
,
273

US National Defense
305

Virginia
105
,
162

Warsaw
61

Wisconsin
18
,
235

Urals, the
162
,
418
,
420

uranium

bomb
32
,
54
,
100
,
102–3
,
130
,
226
,
274
,
286
,
302
,
319–20
,
344–5
,
351

gun
246

isotopes
14
,
64
,
78
,
137
,
176
,
374

oxide
32
,
42–3
,
69
,
74–6
,
86
,
95
,
138
,
152
,
181
,
203
,
296–7

production of
415

supply of
181
,
415

Uranium, Advisory Committee on
42
,
51–2
,
65

Uranium Committee, the American
103–9
,
126

Uranverein
(Uranium Club), the
16
,
20
,
23
,
28–9
,
31
,
35–8
,
44
,
60
,
75–8
,
80–7
,
119–21
,
128
,
132
,
138
,
202
,
260
,
263–5
,
270–1
,
274–5
,
288–9
,
292–3
,
339–40
,
342
,
345–6
,
350
,
352–3

Urey, Harold
163
,
254
,
310
,
389
,
423

Urfeld, village of
270
,
294

US Air Force
286
,
491

Foreign Technology Division
491

US Army
42
,
141
,
176
,
190
,
219
,
290
,
302
,
320
,
322
,
338
,
468

US Congress
104
,
110
,
303
,
401
,
410
,
416

US National Bureau of Standards
42
,
191

US National Defense University,
see
universities

US Navy
259
,
280
,
408

Pacific Fleet
112

US Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the ‘Truman Committee’)
287

US Treasury
209

USSR Council of People’s Commissars
360

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