crisis ExCom.
Kharlton, Maria Nikolaevna (har'-ih-tone, mah-ree'-uh nick-oh-lave'- nuh). Mrs. Yuli Khariton.
Kharlton, Yuli Borisovich (har'-ih-tone, you'-lee bore-ees'-o- veetch). Soviet theoretical physicist; scientific director of Arzamas-16 (Sarov).
Khlopin, Vitali Grigorievich (klope1-een, vih-tall'-ee grig-ore- ee-a'-veetch). Soviet radiochemist; chairman of Soviet uranium commission.
Khrushchev, Nikita (kroos'-choff, nee-kee'-tah). Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958–1964.
Kikoin, Isaak Konstantinovich (kee-coin', ees-sa-ak’ cone-stan-teen'-o- veetch). Soviet experimental physicist; directed development of gaseous diffusion and centrifuge methods of isotope separation.
Kim II Sung. First Premier of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1948– 1994.
King, Mackenzie. Prime Minister of Canada, 1935–1948 (and previously).
Kirov, Sergei Mironovich (keer'-off, save'-gay meer-own'-oh- veetch). Leningrad Communist Party leader whose assassination in 1934 marked the beginning of the Great Terror.
Kistiakowsky, George (kiss-tee-ah-cough'-ski). Ukrainian emigre chemist; developed explosive-lens technology at Los Alamos during the Second World War.
Koestler, Arthur (kest'-ler). Hungarian-born novelist, journalist and critic; author of Darkness at Noon (1940).
Komarovsky, A. N. (kome-ah-rahv'-ski). Director of construction at Chelyabinsk-40.
Konopinski, Emil (ko-no-pin'-ski). American theoretical physicist; first proposed using tritium to lower temperature of fusion ignition in hydrogen bomb.
Koski, Walter. Group leader for implosion studies at wartime Los Alamos.
Kotikov, Anatoli N. (coe'-tih-koff, ah-nuh-toe'-lee). Red Army colonel; head of Soviet Alsib Pipeline mission.
Kowarski, Lew (coe-wahr'-ski). Russian physicist working in France; colleague of Frederic Joliot-Curie and Hans Halban.
Kravchenko, Victor (krahf-chen'-ko). Soviet defector; author of/ Chose Freedom (1946).
Kremer, Simon Davidovich (kray'-mer, see-moan’ dah-veed'-o- veetch) (“Alexander”). Soviet Red Army Intelligence (GRU) agent; Klaus Fuchs's first control in England.
Kuczynski, Jurgen (kyu-zin'-ski, yurg'-en). German emigre economist; political leader of German Communist Party in England. Ruth Kuczynski's brother.
Kuczynski, Ruth (“Sonia”) (Ruth Brewer; Mrs. Len Brewer). German Communist and Soviet courier.
Kurchatov, Antonina (kur-chot'-off, ahn-toe-neen'-yah) Igor and Boris Kurchatov's older sister; died in childhood of tuberculosis.
Kurchatov, Boris. Soviet chemist. Igor Kurchatov's brother.
Kurchatov, Igor Vasilievich (kur-chot'-off, ee'-gore vahs-ill-ee-a'- veetch) Soviet nuclear physicist; scientific director of Soviet nuclear project, 1943–1960.
Kurchatov, Marina Dmitrievna (mah-reen'-ah dih-mee-tree-ave'- nuh) (Marina Sinelnikov). Kirill Sinelnikov's sister. Mrs. Igor Kurchatov.
Kvasnikov, Leonid R. (kvass'-nee-koff, lay'-oh-need) In 1940, head of NKVD science and technology department.
La Guardia, Fiorello. Mayor of New York City. Headed UNRRA postwar.
Lafazanos, Konstantin. Graduate student who lived with Kristel and Robert Heineman.
Lamphere, Robert (lam'-fear). FBI agent responsible for identifying Klaus Fuchs.
Landau, Lev (lawn'-dow, leff). Soviet theoretical physicist jailed during the Great Terror; Nobel laureate.
Lanning, Mary. Harry Gold's co-worker at Philadelphia General Hospital; the woman he hoped to marry.
Lansdale,John,Jr. Manhattan Engineer District intelligence officer.
Lattlmer, Wendell. American chemist at Berkeley; testified against Robert Oppenheimer.
Lauritsen, Charles. Danish physicist; testified for Robert Oppenheimer.
Lavrentiev, Oleg (lah-vrehn'-tee-ehv, oh'-lek). Soviet sailor whose proposal for controlled thermonuclear fusion influenced Andrei Sakharov.
Lawrence, Ernest O. American experimental physicist; cyclotron inventor; founder of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory; Nobel laureate.
Leahy, William. US Navy officer; Chief of Staff to Harry S. Truman.
LeBaron, Robert. Chairman of Military Liaison Committee.
Leipunski, Alexander I. (luh-poon'-ski). Polish-born Soviet physicist; directed the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology, 1932–1937.
LeMay, Curtis. US Air Force officer; commanding general of the Strategic Air Command, 1948–1957; USAF Chief of Staff during the Cuban missile crisis.
Llbby, Willard F. American chemist; developed radiocarbon dating; Nobel laureate.
Lilienthal, David E. First chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Lindbergh, Charles. Pioneer American aviator.
Loper, Herbert B. US Air Force officer; member of Military Liaison Committee.
Lovett, Robert. Under Secretary of State; Under Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Defense under Harry S. Truman.
Lysenko, Trofim (lie-syen'-kho, troe'-feem). Soviet agronomist whose theory of acquired inheritance became official Stalinist dogma.
MacArthur, Douglas. US Army officer; commander of occupied Japan, 1945–1951; commander of UN forces in South Korea, 1950–1951.
Maclean, Donald (muck-lane’). British diplomat; member of the Cambridge Five; Soviet espionage agent.
Maclean, Melinda. Donald Maclean's American wife.
Main, Harold. RCAF corporal; the Gouzenkos’ neighbor.
Makins, Roger. British diplomat; deputy chairman of Combined Policy Committee.
Malenkov, Georgi (mall-yen'-koff, gay-org'-ee). Member of the Soviet State Defense Committee; chairman of the Council of Ministers, 1953–1955.
Malraux, Andre. French Resistance leader, novelist and art historian.
Malyshev, Vyacheslav (mall'-ih-sheff, yatch'-ace-slaff). Protege of Georgi Malenkov; first Minister of Medium Machine Building.
Manakova, Maria Alekseevna (mahn-ah-cove'-ah, mah-ree'-ah ahl-eck-see- ave'-nah). Physicist at Sarov.
Mandelstam, Osip (mahn'-dell-schtahm, oh'-seep). Soviet poet; died in gulag.
Manley, John H. American experimental physicist; Los Alamos associate director, 1947– 1951; secretary to General Advisory Committee.
Mao Zedong. First chairman of the People's Republic of China, 1949–1976.
