The Girls of Atomic City (61 page)

Manhattan Project directed by,
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,
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Meitner and,
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security measures and,
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–53

Westcott’s meeting with,
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,
239
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Y-12 plant and,
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H

Hahn, Otto,
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–59,
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Nobel Prize awarded to,
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–94

Hall, Harold,
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–41,
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Hall, Helen,
see
Brown, Helen Hall

Hanford, Washington (Site W),
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Happy Valley trailer encampment,
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amusement fairway at,
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laundry in,
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shopping in,
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streetlights in,
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telephones in,
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water supply in,
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Harrison, George L.,
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Harshaw Chemical Co.,
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Harwit, Martin O.,
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Hastings, Doc,
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Hawaii,
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Heisenberg, Werner,
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–29

Hempelmann, Louis,
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Hendrix, John,
27
–28,
314

Hepburn, Katharine,
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Hill, the,
see
Los Alamos, N.Mex.

Himmler, Heinrich,
58

Hinton, Joan,
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233
–34,
237

Hirohito,
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Hiroshima,
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–53,
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–91,
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Hitler, Adolf,
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death of,
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H. K. Ferguson Company,
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,
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,
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,
205

Hoff, Geraldine,
30

Hoffman, Bernard,
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Holly, Arthur,
see
Compton, Arthur

Holy Sonnets
(Donne),
236

Hornbeak, Tenn.,
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–70

House Military Affairs,
28

Howland, Dr.,
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,
222

HP-12,
see
Cade, Ebb

hydrogen peroxide,
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I

Indianapolis,
USS,
251

informants,
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–74,
117
–18,
167
–69,
212
–13

intelligence agents,
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Intelligence and Security Division,
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Interim Committee,
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–28,
230

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
85

International Friendship Bell,
307
–8

Iowa State College,
99

isotopes,
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,
34
,
59

radioactive,
295

Italian Navigator,
see
Fermi, Enrico

Italy,
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75
,
152

Iwo Jima,
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,
252

J

J. A. Jones Construction,
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87
,
209

James, Harry,
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Japan,
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,
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,
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,
295

Allied occupation of,
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bombing of Tokyo,
229
–30

Pearl Harbor,
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,
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250
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,
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,
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Potsdam Proclamation and,
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,
255

surrender of,
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,
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–73

U.S. relations with,
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–8

Japan, atomic bombing of,
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–56,
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,
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decision made,
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Hiroshima,
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–91,
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leaflets dropped on cities,
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–56

Nagasaki,
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–73,
288
–89,
291

Stimson’s statement on,
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–60

Truman and,
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–44,
251
,
255
–56,
278
,
292

Warren’s trip to assess aftermath of,
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–90,
291

Jeffries, Zay,
151

Jennings, John, Jr.,
28

Jones, David,
70

Jones, Dorothy (“Dot”),
see
Wilkinson, Dorothy Jones

Jones, J. A.,
88

Jones, Willard Worth “Shorty,”
70
–71,
308

Jones, Woodrow,
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K

K-25 plant,
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–6,
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bomber plane and,
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closing of,
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construction of,
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,
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,
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gaseous diffusion process at,
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–2,
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name of,
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shape of building,
102

size of,
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,
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start of full operations at,
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–3

K-27 plant,
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,
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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry,
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Kalibr (David Greenglass),
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,
298