The Girls of Atomic City (64 page)

R

Raby, Parlee,
24

radiation,
33
,
207
,
279

from Japan bombings,
288

radioisotopes,
295

railroads,
21
,
84
,
122
–24,
127
–28

derailment accident,
128

Rea, Charles,
96
,
127
–29,
197
,
198
,
250
,
256
,
257
,
277
,
278

recreational activities,
134
–38,
142
,
144
–45

Recreation and Welfare Association,
134

Regas Brothers Cafe,
13
–14

religious services,
52
–53,
141
–42,
145

Reservation, the,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

rhenium,
34

Ritz Club,
143

Roane-Anderson Company,
89
,
92
,
134
,
136
,
139
,
145

Robinson, George O. (“Gus”),
275
–76

Rockwell, Norman,
30

Rom, Marty,
314

Roosevelt, Franklin D.,
8
,
17
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22
,
61
–62,
92
,
223
,
225
,
242
,
253

censorship and,
154

death of,
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,
225
,
227

reelection of,
191

Rosenberg, Ethel,
298

Rosenberg, Julius,
298

Rosie the Riveter,
30

Ross, B. W.,
92

Rowan, Bess,
82
,
84
,
86
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87
,
126
,
127
,
190
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280
,
281
,
306

Rowan, Brien,
84
,
215

Rowan, Colleen,
see
Black, Colleen Rowan

Rowan, Harry,
190

Rowan, James (Colleen’s father),
86
,
87

Rowan, Jimmy (Colleen’s brother),
82
,
189
–90,
281
,
306

Rowan, Jo,
87
,
127

Rowan, John,
82

Rowan, Sara,
190

Rowan family,
82
,
86
,
87

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
293

Russia,
see
Soviet Union

Rutherford, Ernest,
32

Ryan, Al,
187

S

S-50 plant,
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,
xvi
,
100
,
106
–7,
191
–92,
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,
259

construction of,
172
,
192

liquid thermal diffusion process at,
101
,
107
–8,
192

operations started at,
205

Sachs, Alexander,
62

Sato, Naotake,
255

Saturday Evening Post,
11
,
30

Schmitt, Chuck,
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–81,
249
,
265
–67,
282
–85

parents of,
282
–85,
303

Toni’s marriage to,
303
–4

Schmitt, Toni Peters,
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1
–2,
20
–23,
26
–27,
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–31,
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111
–12,
148
–50,
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249
,
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–67,
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,
303
–4

arrival at CEW,
40
–42

badge of,
150

Chuck Schmitt and,
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–81,
249
,
265
–67,
282
–85

Chuck’s marriage to,
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–4

dictation taken by,
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–42,
112

Ken York and,
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–81

promotion declined by,
129
–30

ROTC dance outing of,
148
–49

work of,
112

Scientist, the,
see
Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Seaborg, Glenn,
207
,
230

Secretary, the,
see
Stimson, Henry

Secret City Festival,
312
,
313
,
314

seditious activity,
168
–69

Segrè, Emilio,
174
,
294

Senate Special Committee,
226

Sengier, Edgar,
17
,
18
–19,
99

Shenandoah, Pa.,
4

Celia Szapka in,
4
,
7
,
9

Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg,
58

Siener, Father,
52
,
53
,
148
,
195
,
281

silver,
104
–5

Site W,
see
Hanford, Washington

Site X,
see
Clinton Engineer Works

Site Y,
see
Los Alamos, N.Mex.

Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill,
83
,
297

Smedley, Barbara,
247
–48

Smith, Jesse,
209

Smith, Ray,
314

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum,
313

Smitz, Mr.,
39
,
54
,
194

Smyth, Henry DeWolf,
291

Smyth Report,
291
–92

Socorro Chieftain,
237

Soviet Union,
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,
225
,
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,
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,
243
,
245
,
255
,
272

in Cold War,
298
,
299

nuclear bombs of,
298
,
299

U.S. atomic program and,
243
,
298

Spaatz, Carl Andrew,
244

Spam,
217
,
219

Special Engineer Detachment (SED),
49
,
139
,
172
,
175

Spivey, Virginia,
see
Coleman, Virginia Spivey

Stalin, Joseph,
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Manhattan Project and,
243