The Girls of Atomic City (60 page)

Department of Energy,
293

Depression, Great,
4
,
25
,
82
,
83
,
165
,
185

Diamond, Mr.,
41
–42,
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,
112
,
129
–30,
180
,
266

Diebner, Kurt,
228

Dietrich, Marlene,
127

District Engineer, the,
see
Nichols, Kenneth

Donne, John,
236

Dow Chemical Company,
301

DuPont,
49
,
259
,
279

E

Eastman Kodak,
105

Edwards, Elizabeth,
89
,
261

Einstein, Albert,
60
–62,
242

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
246
,
297
,
299

Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited,
10
,
99

electromagnetic separation method,
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,
102
–5,
106
,
109
,
192

electrons,
32

electroshock treatment,
200
–201

Element
94
(plutonium),
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,
78
,
100
,
226
,
272
,
279

physiological hazards of working with,
207
–8

production of,
100

test subjects injected with,
221
–22,
247
,
292
–93

elements,
32
–33

employment,
84
–85

employers’ anger at Project,
147

racial discrimination in,
46
–47

Statement of Availability program and,
84
,
87
,
168

energy, conversion of mass into,
60

Energy, Department of,
293

Engineer, the,
see
Nichols, Kenneth

Enola Gay,
252
,
313

Evans, Redd,
30

Evans, Tom,
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–21

Executive Order No. 8802,
46

F

Fair Employment Practices Committee,
46

farm equipment,
147

Farmer, Henry,
see
Fermi, Enrico

Farm Hall,
228
,
245
,
263
–64

Farrell, General,
290

FBI,
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,
106
,
112
,
153
,
174

Federal Civil Defense Administration,
298

Felton, Gene,
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–79

Fercleve,
205

Ferguson, Evelyn (Mrs. H. K.),
xiv
,
107
–8,
205

Ferguson, Harold Kingsley,
107
,
108

Fermi, Enrico (“Henry Farmer”; “the Italian Navigator”),
xiv
,
xv
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32
–34,
57
,
58
,
61
,
75
–80,
100
,
151
,
174
,
228
,
234
,
294

atomic bomb test and,
235

in first self-sustaining nuclear reaction experiment,
76
–78

“Possible Production of Elements of Atomic Number Higher Than 92,”
32

Fermi, Laura,
61
,
75
,
78
–80

Feynman, Richard,
174

fission,
61
,
76
,
100
,
260
,
263
,
293
–94

fluorine,
131

Ford, Bacon & Davis,
124

49 (plutonium),
see
Element
94

Fox, Mark,
192

Franck, James,
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,
174
,
230

Friedell, Hymer,
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–7,
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,
221
–22

Frisch, Otto,
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,
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–61,
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,
234
,
263
–64

Fuchs, Klaus,
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,
243
,
298

G

Gadget, the,
see
atomic bomb

gaseous diffusion separation process:

at K-25,
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–2,
191

at K-27,
192

Gates, Frances Smith,
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–57

Geiger counters,
288

General, the,
see
Groves, Leslie

General Electric,
125
,
151

George Washington University (GWU),
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–45

Germany,
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,
19
,
58
,
152
,
227
,
238
,
291

atomic research in,
62
,
119
,
228
,
252
–53,
258

surrender of,
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,
230
,
254

glyptal,
125

Goldright, David,
293

Graves, Al,
234
–35

Graves, Elizabeth (“Diz”),
xv
,
234
–35,
237

Great Depression,
4
,
25
,
82
,
83
,
165
,
185

Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
23
,
25

Greenglass, David (Kalibr),
175
,
237
,
243
,
298

Greer, Jane,
see
Puckett, Jane Greer

Grew, Joseph,
9

grits,
13
–14

Grove Center,
142

Groves, Leslie (“The General”),
xv
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–17,
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,
83
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101
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,
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181
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192
,
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,
223
–26,
228
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–31,
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,
290
,
291

and amount of Tubealloy needed,
105
–6

and atomic bombing of Japan,
243
,
244
,
251
,
252
,
272
,
290

atomic bomb test and,
235
–38,
241
,
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Celia Szapka and,
55

CEW workers addressed by,
287

Evelyn Ferguson’s meeting with,
107

liquid thermal diffusion method and,
107
–8