Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

Mark, J. Carson. Canadian theoretical physicist; led theoretical group at Los Alamos postwar; led theoretical work on Mike device.

Marks, Anne. Aide to Robert Oppenheimer in wartime Los Alamos. Mrs. Herbert Marks.

Marks, Herbert. Attorney; State Department liaison with Acheson-Lilienthal board of consultants; adviser to Robert Oppenheimer during Oppenheimer security hearing.

Marshall, George C. Wartime US Army Chief of Staff; Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under Harry S. Truman.

Martin, Joseph. US Representative (Republican-Massachusetts); House Minority Leader during Korean War.

Mayer, Maria. German theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate.

Mazerall, Edward Wilfred. Canadian electrical engineer and Soviet espionage agent.

McCarthy, Joseph. US Senator (Republican-Wisconsin) whose Communist witchhunts gave his name to the McCarthy Era.

McCloy, John J. Member of Secretary of State's 1946 Committee on Atomic Energy that supervised preparation of Acheson-Lilienthal Report for international control of atomic energy.

McCormack, James, Jr. US Army officer; US Atomic Energy Commission Director of Military Applications.

McMahon, Brien. US senator (Democrat-Connecticut); chairman of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1948–1952.

McMillan, Edwin. American physicist; co-discoverer with Glenn Seaborg of element 93, neptunium; Nobel laureate.

McNamara, Robert. US Secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Medvedev, Zhores (med ‘-veh-deff, zor'-ace). Exiled Soviet geneticist.

Menninger, William. American psychiatrist; treated James Forrestal.

Merkulov, Vsevolod Nikolayevich (murk'you-loff, vess'-vo-lod neek-o-lay'-eh- veetch). Head of wartime Soviet foreign intelligence (NKGB) under Lavrenti Beria.

Metropolis, Nicholas. Greek-American mathematician; pioneered computer development at Los Alamos postwar.

Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw (mee-coe-lodge'-zick, stahn'-ees-lqff). Member of postwar Polish Provisional Government.

Mikoyan, Anastas (mee-koy-yawn ahn'-ess-stass). Armenian Bolshevik; member of State Defense Committee.

Miller, Byron. Co-author with James R. Newman of the US Atomic Energy Act.

Mitchell, William. AEC general counsel at time of Oppenheimer security hearings.

Molotov, Vyacheslav (mole'-oh-toff, yatch'-ace-slaff). First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers; member of State Defense Committee.

Montague, Robert M. Commanding general of Sandia Base, Albuquerque.

Morgan, Thomas. Member of security board that investigated Robert Oppenheimer.

Morrison, Philip. American theoretical physicist; with Marshall Holloway, developed pit assembly for Fat Man bomb at wartime Los Alamos.

Moskalenko, K. S. (mose-kuh-len'-ko). Soviet Red Army Marshal.

Moskowitz, Miriam. Abraham Brothman's secretary and alleged mistress.

Motinov (Lieutenant Colonel) (moh'-teen-off). GRU officer at Soviet Embassy in Ottawa.

Mott, Nevill. British physicist; taught Klaus Fuchs; Nobel laureate.

Muccio, John. In 1950, American ambassador to the Republic of Korea.

Murphy, Robert. Under Secretary of State under Harry S. Truman.

Murray, Thomas. AEC commissioner.

Nasser, Gamal Abdel. Prime Minister and President of Egypt, 1954–1970.

Nelson, Steve. Croatian-born American Communist espionage agent.

Newman, James R. Attorney. Aide to US Senator Brien McMahon; co-author with Byron Miller of the US Atomic Energy Act.

Nichols, Kenneth. US Army officer. Manhattan Project deputy to Leslie R. Groves; commander of Armed Forces Special Weapons Project (AFSWP); general manager, Atomic Energy Commission.

Nitze, Paul. Director of State Department Policy Planning Staff, succeeding George Kennan.

Nixon, Richard. Thirty-seventh President of the United States, 1969–1974; 36th Vice- President under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Norstad, Lauris. USAF officer; aide to USAF Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg.

Nunn May, Alan (“Alek”). British physicist. Wartime Soviet espionage agent in Canada.

ODonnell, Emmett “Rosie,” Jr. US Air Force officer; flew B-29 nonstop trans-Pacific with Curtis LeMay in September 1945.

Oliphant, Marcus. Australian physicist; with Ernest Rutherford and Paul Harteck, discovered thermonuclear fusion reaction.

Oppenheimer, Frank. American experimental physicist; Robert Oppenheimer's younger brother.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert. American theoretical physicist; wartime Director of Los Alamos Laboratory; first chairman of General Advisory Committee.

Oppenheimer, Jacquenette “Jackie.” Mrs. Frank Oppenheimer.

Oppenheimer, Katherine “Kitty.” Mrs. J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Ordzhonikidze, Sergei, (ord-zhawn-uh-kid'-zuh, sare'-gay). Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Council of National Economy.

Pace, Frank. Secretary of the Army during the Korean War.

Panasyuk, Igor Semenovich (pahn'-yah-syuk, ee'-gore same-yon'-o- veetch). Soviet physicist; worked with Igor Kurchatov on F-l reactor.

Pannikar, Sandar. Indian ambassador to People's Republic of China during Korean War.

Pariyskaya, L. V. (par-ees-kah'-yah). Soviet engineer; colleague of Andrei Sakharov at FIAN.

Parsons, William “Deke.” US Navy officer; directed wartime Explosives Division at Los Alamos.

Pash, Boris L. Russian-American US Army intelligence officer.

Pasternak, Boris (pahs'-tur-nahk). Soviet poet and novelist.

Patterson, Robert. Under Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; Secretary of War under Harry S. Truman.

Paul, Randolph. Friend of the Robert Oppenheimers.

Pearson, Drew. Radio commentator.

Peierls, Genia (pie-earls', jean-ee-ah). Russian wife of Rudolf Peierls.

Peierls, Rudolf (pie-earls’). German emigre theoretical physicist; hired Klaus Fuchs for British atomic-bomb project.

Penney, William. British nuclear physicist, specializing in hydrodynamics; directed