Goudsmit, Samuel (Sam), 137
Grand Canyon, 125
Graves, Alvin, 179
Graves, Elizabeth, 182
graveyard shift, 151
Gravitation, 123
gravity, role of in Sun, 92
Great Britain in nuclear club, 184
Greenhouse tests, 14, 108, 114, 115
Dog, 118
Easy, 118
experiments at, 115
fission trigger used in, 174
George, 114, 115, 117, 118, 143, 147, 174
George, early design of, 174
George, success of, 116
Item, 114, 131, 143
Item, and high-energy neutrons, 147
Item, as test of boosting, 117–118
Item, early design of, 148
Griggs, David (Dave), 182
Groves, Leslie, 97
barring of Bohm by, 133
Guggenheim Foundation, 27
gun-type weapon, 99, 100
Hahn, Otto, 53
half life, 46
Hamburger Heaven, 151
Hamilton, Donald (Don), 121, 122
Hanford, Washington, 104
Hansen, Chuck, 189
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 186
H bomb, deliverable, 11
Heisenberg, Werner, 58n
helium-4, 63
Henyey, Louis, 128, 170
“Heterocatalytic Detonation,” 1, 3
Hewitt, Paul, 189
hexadecimal notation, 163
Hill, David, 28, 29
Hitler, Adolf, 93
Hofstadter, Robert, 139n
Holt, Rush, 189
Hopkins, Matthew, 189
House Un-American Activities Committee. See HUAC
HUAC, 30, 122, 132, 134, 136
hydrogen “overweight,” 56
IBM, 149
in New York, 144, 151
implosion, radiation. See radiation implosion
independent-particle model, 28
India in nuclear club, 184
Institute for Advanced Study, 34, 87, 120, 152, 169
Iran, 184
Ireland, 184n
iron, 64, 66
Iron Curtain, 122
Irvine, 186
Israel in nuclear club, 184
Item (test). See Greenhouse tests
“It’s a boy,” 182
Ivy Mike, 114, 178
See Also Mike
J Division, 179
Jemez Mountains, 88
“Joe 1,” 10, 29, 30, 97, 102, 122
Truman’s announcement of, 37
“Joe 2” and “Joe 3,” 79
John Carroll University, 72
Johnson, Louis, 42
Journal Club, 137–138
Jugheads, 159–160
kelvin (unit), 67
Kentucky, 71
Keyworth, George A. (Jay), 19
Kilburn, Tom, 165n
kiloton, defined, 1n
Konopinski, Emil, 93n, 95
and 1941 idea, 96
Korean War, 80, 122
LAMS 1225, 1, 6, 18, 20, 154
Lamy, New Mexico, 144
Las Vegas, Nevada, 113
Lawrence, Ernest, 182
“layer cake,” 5, 10–11, 12, 183
Layzer, David, 141
Legacy of Hiroshima, 15
Lennie, Frances, 189
Levin, Martin, 189
Libya, 184
Lilienthal, David, 41, 42
line of stability, 61–62
liquid-droplet model, 28
lithium deuteride, 22, 92, 102, 142
calculational challenge of, 103, 111
calculations with, 159, 168
as “second idea,” 11
used in Bravo test, 161, 184
lithium hydride. See lithium deuteride
Livermore Laboratory, 102n
Lomanitz, G. Rossi (Ross), 132n, 135
Longmire, Conrad, 87
Los Alamos, New Mexico
1968 summer in, 187
airstrip, 76
road to, 76
schools, 120
town entrance, 77
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1n
Los Alamos Primer, 95
Los Alamos Ranch School, 77, 85
Los Alamos Scientific
Laboratory, 1
approves Matterhorn, 169
buildings at, 85, 86
and design of fission trigger, 143
and formation of Matterhorn, 121
and loyalty oath, 81–83
loyalty oaths, 81–83, 83n, 122
“Lucky Dragon No. 5,” 114n, 160
“luminaries,” 93
machine language, 167
Madison, Wisconsin, 131
magnetic monopole, 26, 124, 155–156
Manchester, UK, 48
Manhattan Engineer District, 97n
Manhattan Project, 97
MANIAC, 120, 144, 150, 165, 169
memory of, 166
Manley, John, 82–83
and 1942 conference, 93n
Marchant calculators, 5n
Mark, Carson, 2–3, 19, 87, 88
1995 interview with, 21–23
Bethe’s link to, 88
at June 1951 meeting, 152
and Nevada tests, 113
reaction to Wheeler-de
Hoffmann meeting, 33
and Teller, 4, 20
and Ulam, 4, 17
Marsden, Ernest, 48, 49
Marshall, James, 97n
Marshall Islands, 112, 160, 177
mass-energy equivalence, 47
mass spectrometer, 55
Matterhorn, 102
1952 team, 141
approved by April 1951, 121
beginning of, 140–142
chosen location of, 130
final report of, 168–169, 170, 171–173, 172
and Mike design, 159
shack, 140
work of, 163–176
Matterhorn (actual peak), 129
Mayer, Harris, 103, 189
McCarthy, Joseph, 30, 122
McGill University, 46
McIntosh, John, 141
McKibbin, Dorothy, 75, 76
McMahon, Brien, 41, 42, 43
McMillan, Edwin (Ed), 93n
mechanics, classical, 26
mechanics, laws of, 10
megaton, defined, 1n
Meitner, Lise, 53–54, 54, 55
mercury delay lines, 166
Metropolis, Nicholas (Nick), 103
Mexico, 184n
Mike, 111, 168
as first big test of thermonuclear burning, 174
as first Ivy test, 178
fission trigger of, 175
imagined design of, 158
in its shed, 180
mushroom cloud of, 181
predicted yield of, 177
sequence of events in, 177
time of explosion of, 178n
weight of, 179
yield of, 177, 183
Mississippi, 114
Monroe calculators, 5n
motion, molecular, 69
motorcycle, 118, 131, 161
Mottelson, Ben, 28n, 29n
Mt. Wilson telescope, 126
Murray, Peggy, 141
Murray, Thomas, 152n
mushroom cloud, 180, 181
Nason, David, 73
National Bureau of Standards, 144, 163
Navy, 71–72
NBS, 144, 163
Nelson, Eldred, 93n, 94
neutrinos, 104
neutrons
14-MeV, 110, 116, 118, 142, 158
diffusion of, 94
Nevada test site, 113, 114
New Agenda Coalition, 184
New Mexico landscape, 74, 76
New Zealand, 184n
Nordheim, Lothar, 102, 119, 152
North Korea in nuclear club, 184
Noyes, Pierre, 172, 173
nuclear energy, 59–66
nuclear force, 60
nuclei, electric repulsion of, 108–109
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 130, 138
oaths. See loyalty oaths
Obama, Barack, 184
Ojala, Audrey, 141
Old Pecos Trail, 75
Olesko, Kathy, 189
Oppenheimer, Frank, 132, 135
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 37n, 38, 39
and 1942 conference, 93, 96, 127
1943 meeting with Teller, 43
at 1954 hearing, 153–154
his “frustrated gratitude,” 147
as GAC chairman, 106
GAC special role on, 40
at June 1951 meeting, 152–153
relation to Teller, 107
and September 1950 GAC meeting, 106–108
as wartime head of Project Y, 97
Otowi Mesa, 74