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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
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
American Communist Party,
see
Communist Party
Amtorg (Soviet foreign trade agency)
219
,
240
,
253
Anderson, Herb
157
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
Aquitania
(ship)
219
Ardenne, Manfred von
80–1
,
126
,
295–6
,
343
,
418
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
Artkino Pictures
253
Artsimovich, Lev
248
,
292
,
295–6
,
418
Arzamas-16 nuclear facility
417–37
,
442
,
445
,
449
,
472
Asia
112
Athenia
, sinking of the
48
Atomic Development Authority
388
Atomic Energy, Advisory Committee on
398
Atomic Energy, Joint Committee on
475
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
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
Aubert, Axel
33