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INDEX

Abelson, Philip
12
,
37
,
48–51
,
69
,
74
,
280

‘Able’ bomb test
409–10

Acheson, Dean
383

Acheson–Lilienthal report
387–90
,
401–2
,
412

Adamson, Lieutenant Colonel Keith
42–3

Aeronautical Research Committee
64

Africa
18

North Africa
259

Ailinginae, island of
473

Aioi Bridge
331

Alamogordo, New Mexico
313

bombing range
286

Albarn, Damon
492

Alboro, Lake
95

Albuquerque
188
,
234
,
255–6
,
289
,
312–3
,
315
,
320
,
364

Alexander Suvarvov
, SS (ship)
393

Alexandrov, Anatoly
449

Alexandrov, Simon
409

Alexandrovich, Vitaly
428

Algiers
268
,
276

Alikhanov, Abram
247
,
362

Allier, Jacques
33
,
64
,
70
,
84

Allison, Samuel
285

alpha particles,
see
particles

Alsos mission
259–61
,
266–7
,
269
,
273–4
,
276
,
287
,
292–4
,
339
,
342
,
352
,
361
,
486

Alswede, town of
356

Altshuler, Lev
427

Alvarez, Luis
12

Amaldi, Edoardo
267
,
269–70

American Communist Party,
see
Communist Party

Amsterdam
63
,
273

Amtorg (Soviet foreign trade agency)
219
,
240
,
253

Anami, Korechika
326
,
335–7

Anderson, Herb
157

Anderson, Sir John
101
,
141
,
398

Angelov, Pavel
362–3
,
394

Anschluss, the
2

anti-Semitism,
see also
‘final solution’
2
,
96

Anzio, Allied landing at
267–8

Aomon Island
434

Appalachian
, USS (ship)
409

Appleton, Sir Edward
101

Apresyan, Stepan
254
,
482

Aquitania
(ship)
219

Ardenne, Manfred von
80–1
,
126
,
295–6
,
343
,
418

Ardennes, the
34
,
288

Arkansas
, USS (ship)
408

Arlington Hall
219–20
,
258
,
422
,
429–30
,
481

arms race
230–1
,
237
,
251
,
300–1
,
308
,
460
,
484
,
491

Army Security Agency (ASA)
422

Arnold, Henry
448
,
458

Artkino Pictures
253

Artsimovich, Lev
248
,
292
,
295–6
,
418

Arzamas-16 nuclear facility
417–37
,
442
,
445
,
449
,
472

Asia
112

Central Asia
248
,
418

Athenia
, sinking of the
48

Atomic Development Authority
388

Atomic Energy, Advisory Committee on
398

Atomic Energy, Joint Committee on
475

Atomic Energy Act
411–16
,
478

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
384
,
387
,
401
,
403
,
410
,
412
,
433
,
440
,
456

Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
(report)
367

Atomic Energy Research Establishment(AERE)
400

atomic programmes,
see also
Manhattan Project

Allied
91
,
131
,
141
,
218
,
240
,
261–3

American
52
,
54
,
1–5
,
1–8
,
127
,
137–47
,
150–2
,
162–3
,
169
,
179
,
183
,
186
,
193
,
196
,
200
,
214

British
74
,
181
,
398
,
400
,
405
,
416
,
426

German
29
,
31
,
38
,
65
,
119–32
,
202
,
216
,
228
,
259
,
261–2
,
270–5
,
288
,
293
,
295
,
339
,
342
,
347
,
352–4
,
486

H-bomb (‘Super’)
470
,
474
,
478

Soviet
17
,
175–6
,
247–50
,
295
,
313
,
360
,
362
,
370–2
,
417–21
,
433
,
472
,
485

Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
492

Attenborough, Richard
465

Attlee, Clement
326
,
385

Aubert, Axel
33

Auer Company
32
,
35
,
275
,
296
,
418