Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

Travis, Robert. US Air Force officer; killed in plane crash during transfer of unarmed atomic bombs to the Far East.

Trudeau, Arthur G. US Army officer. Commanded constabulary during Berlin Airlift.

Truman, Harry S. Thirty-third President of the United States, 1945–1953; thirty-fourth Vice President of the United States, 1945, under Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Tuck, James. British physicist; member of British Mission to Los Alamos; proposed using explosive lenses for implosion.

Tunner, William. US Air Force officer; commanded Operation Vittles (Berlin Airlift).

Turkevich, Anthony. American mathematician at Los Alamos who calculated Super hydrodynamics.

Twining, Nathan. USAF officer; USAF Chief of Staff, 1953–1960; chairman JCS, 1957– 1960.

Ulam, Frangoise. Mrs. Stanislaw Ulam.

Ulam, Stanislaw (oo'-lahm, stahn'-ees-laff). Polish emigre mathematician; co-inventor with Edward Teller of the staged, radiation-imploded hydrogen bomb.

Urey, Harold. American chemist who discovered deuterium; Nobel laureate.

Van Loon, Ernest. FBI agent; Robert Lamphere's partner.

Vandenberg, Arthur. US Senator (Republican-Michigan).

Vandenberg, Hoyt. US Air Force officer; USAF Chief of Staff, 1948–1953.

Vannikov, Boris Lvovich (vahn'-ih-koff, bore'-ees live'-o-veetch). Wartime Soviet People's Commissar of Munitions; administered Soviet nuclear weapons program, 1945–1953.

Vasilenko, Semen (vahs-eel-yen ‘-coe, same'-yon). NKVD officer; transported black suitcases to USSR during wartime.

Vasilevsky, Lev (vahs-eel-yeff-ski, leff). NKVD officer; deputy to Pavel Sudoplatov.

Vaughan, Harry. Military aide to Harry S. Truman.

Veblen, Oswald. Mathematician at Institute for Advanced Study.

Vernadski, Vladimir I. (vare-nahd'-ski, vlad'-ih-meer). Professor of mineralogy at Moscow University; founded State Radium Institute in Leningrad.

Vemadsky, George (vare-nahd'-ski) Yale University historian. Son of Vladimir Vernadski.

Volkogonov, Dmitri (vole-coe'-gone-off, dih-mee''-tree). Retired Red Army colonel general and head of the Institute of Military History; Stalin biographer.

Volpe, Joseph. American attorney. Counsel to AEC and to Robert Oppenheimer.

von Neumann, John (fon noy'-mahn). Hungarian emigre mathematician; developed high-explosive lens theory; pioneered digital computer.

Voroshilov, Kliment (vor-osh'-eel-off, klee'-ment). Marshal of the Red Army and member of the State Defense Committee.

Vyshinsky, Andrei (vih-shin'-ski). Soviet prosecutor; chief prosecutor during the purge trials that accompanied the Great Terror.

Wahl, A C. American chemist. With Glenn Seaborg and Joseph W. Kennedy, first isolated plutonium at Berkeley in 1940.

Walker, John. Member of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy staff.

Wallace, Henry. Thirty-third Vice President of the United States, 1941–1945, under Franklin D. Roosevelt; 1948 Progressive Party candidate for President.

Waymack, William W. Iowa newspaper editor; member of first Atomic Energy Commission.

Webster, William. Chairman of Military Liaison Committee.

Wechsler, Jacob. American engineer at Los Alamos; developed cryogenic system for Mike secondary.

Wedemeyer, Albert. US Army officer; Army Director of Plans and Operations during Berlin Airlift.

Weinberg, Alvin M. American experimental physicist; pioneered development of nuclear reactor.

Weinberg, Joseph. American physicist; suspected of espionage at Berkeley.

Weisskopf, Victor (vice'-kopf). Austrian emigre theoretical physicist; advised Hans Bethe against hydrogen-bomb work.

Weizsacker, Carl Friedrich von (fon vite'-seck-ehr). German physicist.

Werth, Alexander. Russian-born British war correspondent and historian.

Wheeler, John Archibald. American theoretical physicist; developed fission theory with Niels Bohr; directed thermonuclear research at Princeton, 1950–1951.

White, Harry Dexter. US government official whom Elizabeth Bentley accused of Soviet espionage.

White, Thomas D. US Air Force officer; Curtis LeMay's predecessor as USAF Chief of Staff.

Wiener, Norbert. American mathematician at MIT.

Wiesner, Jerome. MIT physicist; confronted Curtis LeMay about war plans.

Wigner, Eugene. Hungarian emigre theoretical physicist; predicted “Wigner's disease” in nuclear reactors; Nobel laureate.

Wilson, Carroll. First General Manager of US Atomic Energy Commission.

Wilson, Charles E. US Secretary of Defense under Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Wilson, Roscoe. US Air Force officer; testified against Robert Oppenheimer.

Winne, Harry. Vice President, General Electric; member of the board of consultants that framed the Acheson-Lilienthal Report.

Yatzkov, Anatoli Antonovich (aka Yakovlev) (yachts'- koff, ah-nuh-toe'-lee ahn-toe’ — no-veetch; yah’ — kove-leff). NKVD New York rezident for espionage; controlled Morris and Lona Cohen, Harry Gold and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

York, Herbert. American theoretical physicist; first Director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

Zabotin, Nicolai (zuh-bo'-teen, nee'-coe-lie). Red Army colonel; head of GRU in wartime Canada.

Zacharias, Jerrold. MIT physicist.

Zakharova, Tatyana Vasilievna (zock'-har-oaf-ah, taughtyon'-ah vaze-eel- ee-ave'-nya). Colleague of Yuli Khariton.

Zavenyagin, Avrami Pavlovich (zha-vehn-yag'-een, ahv-rahm'-ee pahv'-low- veetch). Deputy director of the NKVD.

Zeldovich, Yakov B. (zel-doe'-veetch, yak'-off). Soviet theoretical physicist; with Yuli Khariton, developed theory of nuclear chain reactions; co-inventor with Andrei Sakharov of Soviet staged, radiation-imploded hydrogen bomb.

Zernov, Pavel Mikhailovich (zehm'-yoff, pah'-veil mee-kile'-o- veetch). Director of Arzamas-16 (Sarov).

Zhdanov, Andrei (zh-dori-yoff). Political boss of Leningrad during its wartime siege; member of the Politburo.

Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich (zoo'-kqff, gay-org'-ee cone-stan-teen'-o- veetch). Marshal of the Red Army.

Zinn, Walter. American physicist. Protege of Enrico Fermi; reactor pioneer; first director of Argonne National Laboratory.