Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

successful; Jordan's black suitcases explain how the ten thousand pages of secret documents that shocked Yakov Terletsky might have been transported.

Independent scholar Chuck Hansen has assembled the best extant collection in private hands of declassified documents relating to weapons design, development and testing. Chuck's collection, which he generously made available, was invaluable in reconstructing significant events and in filling out the testimony of the scientists and engineers whom I interviewed. To the best of my knowledge, none of the information on weapons design in Dark Sun is restricted; all such information came to me from properly cleared persons and/or declassified sources. Where there was doubt — in the case of the KGB sources, for example — I opted for exclusion.

Abbreviations

DDEL Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas

FBI US Federal Bureau of Investigation

FOIA US Freedom of Information Act

HHL Herbert Hoover Library, West Branch, Iowa

HSTL Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri

LANL, LASL Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, formerly Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

LC US Library of Congress, Washington, DC

MED Manhattan Engineer District (informally, the Manhattan Project) of the US Army Corps of Engineers

RG Record Group (at the National Archives, Washington, DC)

Other abbreviations are explained in the text or in corresponding entries in the Bibliography.

Glossary of names

Abel, Louis. Ruth Greenglass's brother-in-law.

Abelson, Philip. American experimental physicist; developed thermal diffusion of uranium.

Acheson, Dean. US Secretary of State, under Harry S. Truman.

Adamsky, Victor (ah-dahm'ski). Soviet physicist; younger colleague of Andrei Sakharov at Sarov.

Agnew, Harold. American experimental physicist; flew Hiroshima mission; directed development of Mark-17 hydrogen bomb; third director of Los Alamos Laboratory.

Alexandrov, Anatoli Petrovich (ahl-ek-sahri-droff, ah-nuh-toe'-lee pet'-tro- veetcb). Soviet physicist; Director of Institute of Physical Problems, 1946–1955.

Alexandrov, Simon. MGB geologist; attended Bikini tests.

Alikhanov, Abram Isaakovich (ahl-eek-ahn'-off, ahb'-rahm ees-sa-ak'-o- veetch). Soviet physicist; directed development of first Soviet heavy-water reactor.

Alliluyeva, Svetlana (ahl-lay-lew-yave'-uh, svet-lahn'-uh). Josef Stalin's daughter.

Allred, John. American physicist who measured fusion neutrons from Greenhouse George shot.

Alsop, Joseph. American journalist and columnist.

Altshuler, Lev (alt'-shoe-lur, leff). Soviet experimental physicist; worked on implosion at Sarov.

Alvarez, Luis W. American experimental physicist; Nobel laureate.

Anderson, Clinton. US Senator (Democrat-New Mexico) who brought down Lewis Strauss.

Anderson, Herbert. American experimental physicist; pioneered reactor development.

Anderson, John. Director of British atomic-bomb research (“Tube Alloys”).

Angelov (Lieutenant) (ahn'-jell-off). Soviet army intelligence officer in Ottawa; controlled Alan Nunn May.

Arneson, Gordon. US Foreign Service officer specializing in atomic energy issues.

Arnold, Henry. British security officer at Harwell who befriended Klaus Fuchs.

Arnold, Henry “Hap.” Wartime commanding general, USAAF.

Artsimovich, Lev (art-seem-o'-veetch, leff). Soviet physicist who developed electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes.

Attlee, Clement. Prime Minister of England, 1945–1951.

Ayers, Eben. Press secretary to Harry S. Truman.

Bacher, Robert (bock'-er). American physicist; member of first US Atomic Energy Commission.

Balezin, S. A. (bahl-a'-zeen). Senior aide to Sergei Kaftanov.

Barnard, Chester. President, New Jersey Bell; member of the board of consultants that framed the Acheson-Lilienthal Report.

Barr Joel. American electrical engineer associated with Julius Rosenberg; Soviet espionage agent. Defected to USSR in 1950; as Iozef Veniaminovich Berg, worked as microelectronics expert at Leningrad Design Bureau.

Baruch, Bernard. American financier. Headed US delegation to UN Atomic Energy Commission.

Batitsky, Pavel (bah-teet'-ski, pa-vell’). Soviet military officer; executed Lavrenti Beria.

Bedell Smith, Walter. US Army officer; ambassador to the USSR, 1946–1949; Director of the CIA, 1950–1953.

Belenky, Semyon (bale-yane'-kee, same'-yawn). Soviet physicist in Tamm's thermonuclear development group.

Bellet, Samuel. Physician; director of Heart Station at Philadelphia General Hospital where Harry Gold worked.

Bennett, John V. Director of the US Bureau of Prisons under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Bentley, Elizabeth. Vassar-educated American; Soviet espionage courier.

Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (bear'-e-uh, lah-vren'-teepahv'-low- veetch). Head of Soviet secret police; Deputy Prime Minister of USSR during Second World War; directed Soviet atomic bomb project.

Bethe, Hans (bate'-uh, hahnz) German emigre theoretical physicist; directed Theoretical Division at Los Alamos during Second World War; Nobel laureate.

Bethe, Rose. German emigre. Mrs. Hans Bethe.

Bevin, Ernest. British Foreign Secretary in the postwar Labour government of Clement Attlee.

Black, Tom. American chemist. Soviet courier; recruited Harry Gold.

Blunt, Anthony. British art historian; member of the Cambridge Five; Soviet espionage agent.

Bohlen, Charles. American Foreign Service officer and translator, later ambassador.