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PHOTO CREDITS

If not listed below, the photographer is unknown and the rights are public domain.

1
: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Lande Collection

3
: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection

5
: Samuel Goudsmit, AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection

6
: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives

7
: US Department of Energy, ID 2017562

8
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INDEX

Abelson Philip,
144
–45,
162

A-bombs.
See
atomic bombs

Academic Assistance Council,
80
,
81
,
92

Academy of Sciences (Académie des Sciences), France,
14
,
27
,
34
,
37
,
188
,
325

Academy of Sciences, Sweden,
34
,
96

Acheson, Dean,
220
,
296

Aczel, Amir,
61

Adams, Henry,
33

Adamsky, Victor,
268

Adamson, Keith R.,
119

Aeby, Jack,
200
,
203

AEC.
See
Atomic Energy Commission

Agnew, Harold,
132
,
225
–26

Allen, Michael,
346

Allison, Sam,
165
,
199
–200

Alvarez, Luis,
376

atomic bomb research and,
215
,
261
,
262
,
221

Lawrence and,
141
–42

nuclear fission research of Meitner and Frisch and,
144
–45

thermonuclear fusion research of,
212
,
228
,
229

Amaldi, Edoardo,
59
,
62
,
64
,
185

americium-241,
3
,
90
,
363
,
377

ammonia,
372
–73

Anderson, Herbert

injuries suffered by,
167
,
226

Los Alamos and,
158

nuclear fission research at Columbia and,
103
,
104
–05,
133

nuclear reactor (CP-1) installation and testing by,
126
–27,
131
,
132
–33,
136

uranium fission research at Chicago and,
110
–11,
113
,
119
,
124
,
225
,
233

Anderson, Philip,
221

Andropov, Yuri,
327
,
328

“Andy’s Atomic Adventures” (comic book),
375

Appell, Paul,
41
,
43
,
47
,
48

Argonne reactor complex, Chicago,
129
–30,
138
,
139
,
160
,
165
,
166
,
188
,
227
,
229
,
243
,
303
.
See also
Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) nuclear reactor

Arnold, Hap,
221
,
281

Arrhenius, Svante,
48

Arzamas-16, Russia (nuclear research site),
233
,
237
,
255
,
275

Association of Los Alamos Scientists,
220

atomic bombs

Bradley’s “psychological” use of,
235
,
236
–37,
278

Fermi as father of,
266
–67

first use of term,
79

understanding more to fear less about,
378
–79

Wells’s novel on,
79
–80

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

arms control and,
236
,
245
–46

creation of,
229

image of atomic energy and,
230
–31,
341

labs and production facilities of,
282

miners working for,
336

nuclear detection system and,
234
–35

Oppenheimer and,
229
,
257
,
258
,
259
–61

radiation experiments by,
270
,
271

reactor designs and,
304

thermonuclear fusion (Super bomb) and,
235
,
247
,
251
,
252
,
254
,
258
,
259

uranium sources and,
270

weapons testing by,
332

Atoms for Peace,
304
,
305
,
331
,
340
,
341
,
363

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