The Girls of Atomic City (62 page)

KCBA,
236

Kelly, Cynthia,
313

Kelly, Virginia,
66

Kennedy, John F.,
299

assassination of,
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Kingston Demolition Range,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

Kistiakowsky, George,
174

Klemski, Celia Szapka,
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–14,
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–94,
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–42,
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–65,
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–80,
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arrival at CEW,
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–40,
50
–55

family of,
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–8,
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–94

Henry Klemski and,
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,
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,
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–94,
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,
148
,
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–96

identification badges of,
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–40

interrogation of,
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journey to CEW,
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–5,
7
,
12
–14

Knoxville outings of,
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–48

letters home,
161

marriage of,
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,
195
–96,
216

pregnancy of,
216
–17,
279
–80

as Project secretary in New York,
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,
9
–11

and secrecy surrounding Project,
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,
4
–5,
10
–11

in Shenandoah,
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7
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9

State Department job of,
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–9

transfer to Oak Ridge,
10
–11

work of,
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–55,
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,
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Klemski, Henry,
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–94,
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,
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–96,
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–80

Celia’s marriage to,
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,
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–96,
216

Knoxville, Tenn.,
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–14,
146
–48

Knoxville Journal,
273

Kokura,
252

Korean War,
299

Koval, George,
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,
298

Koval, Ruth,
298

Kramish, Arnold,
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–73,
175

Kramish, Sarah,
173

Kyoto,
251

L

Lane, John,
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,
314

Lane, Rosemary Maiers,
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–28,
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–42,
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–82,
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–201,
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,
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–79,
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,
314

marriage of,
303

mentally ill patient and,
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–201

Langham, Wright,
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,
292

Larson, Dr.,
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,
248

Laurence, William L.,
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,
244
,
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,
275

Lawrence, Ernest O. (“Ernest Lawson”),
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16
,
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,
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,
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,
174

Leighton, George Ross,
4

Leverett, M. C.,
152

Leyshon, Emily,
187

Life,
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,
291

Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,
299

lipstick,
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–38

liquid nitrogen,
119

liquid thermal diffusion process:

at Philadelphia Navy Yard,
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–73

at S-50 plant,
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,
107
–8,
192

Loeb, John Jacob,
30

London
Daily Express,
290

Los Alamos, N.Mex. (Site Y; the Hill),
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,
251

atomic bomb test,
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–38,
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,
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Tubealloy for,
see
Tubealloy

Louisville & Nashville Railroads,
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,
127
–28

M

MacArthur, Douglas,
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–91

Madden, Helen,
197

Madison Square Area Engineers Office,
9

magazines,
154
,
165

Mahone, Katie,
90

Maiers, Rosemary,
see
Lane, Rosemary Maiers

Mallinckrodt,
99

Manhattan Project (Manhattan Engineer District),
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,
288
,
298

Clinton Engineer Works,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

creation of,
56
,
62
,
242

expenses and funding for,
62
,
101
,
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–25

Groves’s direction of,
18
,
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high school girls recruited by,
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,
109
–10

need for workers for,
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–50,
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,
85

Roosevelt’s death and,
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Smyth Report on,
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–92

Stalin and,
243

summer encampment of,
15
–17

Truman and,
225
–27

Tubealloy in,
see
Tubealloy

VE Day and,
230

women’s importance to,
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–98,
108

Manhattan Project National Park,
313

Mariana Islands,
230
,
245
,
251

Marshall, George,
272

mass, conversion into energy,
60

McClure Newspaper Syndicate,
157

McDonough, Father,
172

McKellar, Kenneth,
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,
147

Mead, Margaret,
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Meigs, Douglas,
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Meitner, Lise,
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–62,
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–63

Nobel Prize and,
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–94