Buckley, Oliver E., 37n, 38
Budapest, 156
Burr, William (Bill), 189
Buster Jangle, 113
Caldwell, David, 85
California, State of, 81–82
California, University of. See University of California
card-programmed calculators. See CPCs
carolinium, 50, 60
Carr, Alan, 189
Carryall. See Chevrolet Carryall
Carter, David, 25, 141
Casey, Roberta, 141
Castle Bravo test. See Bravo test
Cather, Willa, 76
Cerrillos Road, 75
Chaco Canyon, 84
Chevrolet Carryall, 131, 165
acquisition of, 73
final fate of, 162
misadventures with, 161, 162
trip west in, 73–74
western trips in, 84, 161
Chief (calculations), 173
China in nuclear club, 184
Churchill, Winston, 122
classical Super. See Super, classical
Clendenin, William, 141
Cleveland, Ohio, 131
Clines Corners, 74
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, 188
Cockcroft, John, 50
Cockcroft-Walton experiment, 51, 52, 56
Cold War, 122
collective model, 28
Collinsworth, Rebecca, 190
Columbia University, 55, 93
compression, 6, 9, 21
reported in PM-B-37, 172
computers
as people, 5n, 84, 106n, 144
stored-program, 149
See also specific computers
“computresses,” 5n
Conant, James B., 37n, 38
his letter opposing H-bomb program, 43
Copenhagen, 27, 32, 54
Cornell University, 57, 87
cosmic background radiation, 67
Costa Mesa, California, 186
Cowan, Clyde, 104
CPCs, 5n, 103
in New Mexico, 105, 144
in New York City, 144, 151–152
“crash program,” 31, 122
Crossroads, 112
Curie, Marie, 45, 45–46
and radioactive coinage, 45
Curie, Pierre, 46
DD reactions, 109–110, 157
Dean, Gordon, 41, 106, 152n, 181n
Death Comes for the Archbishop, 76
Defense Department, 188
de Hoffmann, Frederic (Freddie), 15, 16, 18, 20, 87
April 1951 report by, 156
meeting Wheeler in Nice, 32–33, 34
deuterium
in Gedankenexperiment, 68–70
as thermonuclear fuel, 95, 96, 104, 111
deuteron, 63
Devaney, Joseph (Joe), 85
dewar, 156
differential equations, 145
diffusion of neutrons, 94
disarmament, nuclear, 184
dissonance among colleagues, 34
Dodds, Harold, 121, 122
action against Bohm by, 135
DT burning, 116
DT mixture, 147
DT reaction, 110, 111, 157, 158
DuBridge, Lee, 20, 37n, 38
Du Pont, reactor construction by, 104
Eames, Anthony, 189
Eddington, Arthur, 56, 56, 57
Egypt, 184n
Einstein, Albert, 47, 69
Eisenhower, Dwight, 181n
electric force, 60, 61, 62, 65
electromagnetism, laws of, 10
Elliott, Josephine, 106n, 148
Elugelab, 177, 178, 181n
E = mc2, 47, 60
Emergency Capability Weapons, 160
Energy, Department of, xiii
energy release
in fusion reactions, 110, 111
Enewetak atoll, 112, 117, 177, 178, 182
and Greenhouse tests, 108, 114
and Ivy tests, 179
ENIAC, 103, 144, 150
equilibrium, thermal, 7
Evans, Cerda, 103
Evans, Dottie, 92
Evans, Foster, 103
Everett, Cornelius, 17, 87, 103, 104, 105, 106
exclusion principle, 60
experiments, diagnostic, 115, 180
Exploratorium, 132
exponential change, 46
fallout, 114n, 160, 184
Family Committee, 20, 114–115, 147, 155n
“Father of the H bomb,” 13
F Division, 98
Fehner, Terry, 189
Fellows, Margaret, 141
Fermi, Enrico, 37n, 39, 40
and 1941 idea of fusion, 96
1946 lecture by, 98
1949 meeting with Teller, 43
and calculations with tritium, 111
and chain reaction, 93
character of, 89
early death of, 90
GAC special role on, 40
as head of F Division, 98
January 1946 lecture by, 91
at June 1951 meeting, 152
as lecturer, 85
as Los Alamos consultant, 87, 88, 89, 119
Super calculations by, 84, 103, 105, 106
Feynman, Richard, 170–171
“first idea,” 10–11
Fisk University, 132n
fission
compared with fusion, 66
contribution to H-bomb yield, 158
energetics of, 64
energy released in, 66
inhibition of, 65–66
January 1939 news of, 53
fission bomb
as source of X rays, 1
as thermonuclear trigger, 156, 164, 174, 180
fission physics, 59, 65–66
Fitzpatrick, Anne, 5n
Flagstaff, Arizona, 125
folk dancing, 25, 161
Ford, Adam, 190
Ford, Jason, 190
Ford, Joanne, 190
Ford, Kenneth, 141, 174
Ford, Masha, 189
Ford, Paul, 190
Ford, Sarah, 190
Ford, Star, 190
Forrestal, James, 130
Forrestal Campus, 130n
Forrestal Research Center, 130
boiler room of, 169
France in nuclear club, 184
Frankel, Stanley, 93n, 94
Freeman, Burton (Burt), 85, 148
shared optimism of, 148
and “telephone book” report, 107
Friden calculators, 5n
Frieman, Edward, 141
Frisch, Otto, 53–54, 54, 55
Froman, Darol, 17, 20
Fuchs, Klaus
espionage by, 10, 12, 91, 100, 122
and invention with von
Neumann, 90–91, 99–101, 111, 115, 116, 117
Furry, Wendell, 128
fusion
at 1942 conference, 94
compared with fission, 66
energetics of, 64
energy released in, 66
inhibition of, 65
in stars, 57
of two deuterons, 66
GAC
1949 composition of, 37n
1949 main report, 37–38, 39–40
1949 majority annex, 38
1949 minority annex, 39
October 1949 meeting of, 37–40
September 1950 meeting of, 106–108, 146
Gallup, New Mexico, 84
Gamma Building, 86
gamma particles, 50
gamma rays, 46
Garwin, Richard (Dick), 168n, 189
designing Jugheads, 159–160
designing Mike, 154–155
as Los Alamos consultant, 119
in T-DO, 87
working with Rosenbluth, 159
Garwin design, 154–155, 156–158
Gedankenexperiment, 69–70
Geiger, Hans, 48, 49
General Advisory Committee. See GAC
General Atomics, 16, 168n
genocide and “super bomb,” 38
George (test). See Greenhouse tests
Georgia, 71
German atomic program, 58n
Gignac, Savannah, 190
Ginzburg, Vitaly, 10, 11
Glazer, Tom, 92
Glennan, T. Keith, 152n
Goess, Robert, 141