Stalin, Joseph: bomb development by Soviets; British and US attack on Germany, call for; Hitler, agreement not to fight; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, reaction to; opinions about; plutonium bomb, reaction to information about; plutonium bomb, report on testing of; Truman, Potsdam meeting with
Stimson, Henry
Szilard, Leo
Tibbets, Paul
Trinity Test Site
Truman, Harry: Japan, third atomic bomb for; Japanese surrender, demand for; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, reaction to; Little Boy and Hiroshima bombing, report to; Manhattan Project, secrecy of; Oppenheimer, meeting with; photos of; plutonium bomb, reaction of Stalin to information about; plutonium bomb, report on outcome of testing of; Potsdam Declaration; Roosevelt’s death, news about; Stalin, Potsdam meeting with; US invasion of Japan, plans for; as vice president
United States (US): bomb, development of; bomb, US–British development of; British and US attack on Germany, call for by Stalin; Germany, fighting against; Hitler’s declaration of war against; Italy, fighting against; Japan, declaration of war against; Japan, fighting against; monopoly on atomic bombs; Pearl Harbor, attack on; Potsdam Declaration; Red Scare and hunt for Communists; Soviets, aid to; Soviets, relationship with
Uranium and uranium bombs: amount needed for bomb; atom splitting, discovery of; atom splitting and bombs; bomb, testing of; chain reaction; Czechoslovakian mining of; energy release during splitting of; German supply of; gun assembly design and method; Little Boy bomb and Hiroshima bombing; number of atoms in an ounce of; Oak Ridge preparation of; plutonium, production of; size of atoms of; U-235 sample, experiment with; U-238 and U-235, separation of
Vemork Hydroelectric: Gunnerside mission; heavy water production at; location of; photo of; Poulsson and glider mission to demolish; rebuilding of; sabotage plans against
Wigner, Eugene
World War II: Allied Powers; atomic bombs and loss of; Axis Powers; beginning of; end of; German-Japanese alliance; German surrender; Japan, surrender of; Pearl Harbor, attack on; Potsdam Declaration; US declaration of war against Japan
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Bomb : the race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon / Steve Sheinkin.
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ISBN 978-1-59643-487-5
1. Atomic bomb—History. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Secret service—Soviet Union. 3. World War, 1939–1945—Secret service—Great Britain. 4. World War, 1939–1945— Commando operations—Norway—Vemork. 5. Operation Freshman, 1942. 6. Atomic bomb—Germany—History. I. Title. II. Title: The race to build and steal the world’s most dangerous weapon.
UG1282.A8.S235 2012
623.4‘5119—dc23
2011044096
eISBN 9781596438613
First hardcover edition, 2012
eBook edition, September 2012