Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

Bohr, Aage (bore, oh'-ah). Danish theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate; son of Niels Bohr.

Bohr, Niels. Danish theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate.

Borden, William Liscum. American attorney; author of There Will Be No Time (1946); executive director of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; accused Robert Oppenheimer of espionage.

Born, Max. German emigre theoretical physicist; taught Klaus Fuchs in Edinburgh.

Borst, L. B. American physicist; estimated deuterium capture cross section.

Bradbury, Norris. American experimental physicist; second director of Los Alamos Laboratory.

Bradley, David. Radiation monitor at Bikini; author of No Place to Hide (1948).

Bradner, Hugh. American physicist who designed diagnostics for Greenhouse George.

Brewer, Len. Ruth Kuczynski's husband.

Brezhnev, Leonid (brezh'-neff, lay'-oh-need) Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; later Soviet Premier.

Brish, Arkady Admovich (breesh, are-kay'-dee ahd'-mo-veetch) Soviet physicist at Sarov.

Brokovich, Boris (broke'-oh-veetch, bore'-ees) Soviet engineer at Chelyabinsk-40; later Director.

Brothman, Abraham. American chemist and entrepreneur; sold industrial espionage to Soviets through Elizabeth Bentley and Harry Gold.

Browder, Earl. Chairman of the American Communist Party.

Brownell, Herbert, Jr. US Attorney General under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Buckley, Oliver. President of Bell Telephone Laboratories; member of General Advisory Committee.

Bulganin, Nikolai (bool-gah'-neen, neek'-oh-lie). Member of the State Defense Committee in wartime; Marshal of the Soviet Union postwar.

Bundy, McGeorge. National Security Adviser to John F. Kennedy.

Burchinal, David. US Air Force officer; Deputy Chief for Plans and Operations under Curtis LeMay when LeMay was USAF Chief of Staff.

Burgess, Guy. British diplomat; leader of Cambridge Five; Soviet espionage agent.

Bush, Vannevar. American science administrator; directed the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Byrnes, James “Jimmy.” US Secretary of State, 1945–1947.

Cairncross, John (“List”). British diplomat; member of the Cambridge Five; Soviet espionage agent.

Carlisle Smith, Ralph. Los Alamos security officer.

Catton, Jack. US Air Force officer; staff officer to Curtis LeMay at SAC.

Chadwick, James. British experimental physicist; discovered the neutron; directed the wartime British Mission to the US for atomic-bomb research; Nobel laureate.

Chambers, Whittaker. Time editor and essayist; Soviet espionage courier.

Chernyayev, Ilia Iliich (chem-yah'-yeff, eel'-ee-ah eel — ee- eech). Soviet chemist and Academician.

Chevalier, Haakon (shev-ahV-yea, hoe'-kun). Academic and translator of French literature who solicited Robert Oppenheimer for espionage.

Christy, Robert. American physicist; proposed solid “Christy” core for plutonium implosion.

Churchill, Winston. Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1940–1945,1951-1955.

Clay, Lucius. US Army officer; military governor of the American zone of occupied Germany.

Clegg, Hugh. FBI Assistant Director assigned with Robert Lamphere to interview Klaus Fuchs.

Clifford, Clark. American attorney; postwar aide to Harry S. Truman.

Cockroft, John. British physicist; headed atomic-bomb research in Canada during Second World War; Nobel laureate.

Cohen, Lona (Leontine Patka). Soviet espionage courier; Mrs. Morris Cohen.

Cohen, Morris. American Communist and Soviet espionage agent.

Conn, Roy. American attorney; prosecuted Rosenbergs; served as aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Cole, Sterling. US Representative (Republican-New York) who succeeded Brien McMahon as chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

Collins, Samuel. American physicist; invented Collins Helium Cryostat.

Colville,John. British diplomat.

Compton, Arthur H. American experimental physicist; wartime Director of Metallurgical Laboratory of University of Chicago; Nobel laureate.

Compton, Karl. President of MIT; headed Bikini test evaluation board.

Conant, James Bryant. American chemist; President of Harvard University; wartime head of US Office of Scientific Research and Development; postwar member of General Advisory Committee.

Condon, Edward. American theoretical physicist; directed National Bureau of Standards.

Connally, Tom. US Senator (Democrat-Texas).

Conquest, Robert. British journalist and historian.

Corbino, Orso (core-bean'-o, or'-so). Italian physicist; mentor to Enrico Fermi.

Coulson, Fernande. Canadian Crown Attorney staff member who tried to help the Gouzenkos.

Cowan, George. American radiochemist at Los Alamos who analyzed fallout from Soviet and US weapons tests.

Critchfield, Charles. American theoretical physicist; protege of Hans Bethe; worked on Mike device.

Curie, Marie. Polish physicist; co-discoverer of polonium and radium; Nobel laureate.

Curie, Pierre. French physicist. Co-discoverer of polonium and radium; Nobel laureate.

Curtis-Bennett, Derek. English barrister; Klaus Fuchs's defense counsel.

Cutler, Robert. National Security Adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Dallet, Joe. American Communist activist; member of Abraham Lincoln Brigade killed during siege of Madrid. Kitty Oppenheimer's first husband.

Daniel, Cuthbert. American statistician.

Davidenko, V. A. (dah-veed-yen'-ko). Soviet physicist; colleague of Igor Kurchatov.

de Hoffman, Frederic. Austrian theoretical physicist; protege of Edward Teller at Los Alamos.

Dean, Gordon. Attorney; second chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission.

Debs, Eugene V. US Socialist Party candidate for President.

Dewar, James (doo'-er). British cryogenic pioneer who invented the dewar vacuum bottle.