and loyalty oath controversy at Berkeley
MTA
Nobel prize
Oppenheimer and
and Oppenheimer hearing
and Oppenheimer reinvestigation
optimism
personal characteristics
picture tube for color television
portrait and bust of
postwar research
Rad Lab
and radiological warfare
recommendation for Oppenheimer
relationship with brother
scientific standing of
and second lab
security issues
and Soviet bomb
Soviet interest in
and success of tests
and the Super
and test ban
and test-ban talks
tritium-producing reactors
ulcerative colitis
and use of atomic bomb
and war effort
Wheeler award
Lawrence, John
medical physics clinic
Lawrence, Molly Blumer
LeBaron, Robert
Lehmann, Lloyd
Lewis, Gilbert
Lewis, W. K.
Lewis, Warren
Lewis Committee
Libby, Willard
Lilienthal, David
AEC
exoneration of
and Fuchs spy scandal
at GAC meeting on Super
information requested on
and Oppenheimer
on Oppenheimer
and Oppenheimer’s clearance
and Oppenheimer’s reinvestigation
and radiological warfare
and Soviet bomb
and the Super
Limited Test-ban Treaty (1963)
Linac
linear implosion
Little Boy
“Little Edward”
Livermore laboratory
and clean bomb
first H-bomb test
Lawrence at
miniature warhead (W-47)
problems at
rivalry with Los Alamos
shifting focus from weapons work
site for second lab
Steering Committee
super bombs
and test ban
Livingston, Stanley
Lofgren, Edward
Lomanitz, Giovanni Rossi
drafted
feared “framed” for his politics
and Oppenheimer hearing
Oppenheimer meeting with
and spy hearings
surveillance of
Long, Earl
Long-Range Detection Program
Loomis, Alfred
Loomis fund
Loomis Institute for Scientific Research
Los Alamos laboratory
administration of
AEC and
army contracts
clean bombs
Communists at
contract for Atlas warhead
cyclotroneers at
enriched uranium shipped to
H-bomb program
and inspection system
new weapons
Oppenheimer director of
Physics Division
postwar administration of
rivalry with Livermore
scientific autonomy for
and second nuclear weapons lab
spies at
and the Super
“Super Handbook”
Teller leaving
Teller’s return to
and test ban
Theoretical Division
Weapons Division
weapons program/research
“Los Alamos University”
Lovett, Robert
loyalty hearings
loyalty oath
see also Berkeley, loyalty oath controversy at
Luce, Henry
McCarthy, Joseph
McCloy, John
McCone, John
McCormack, James
McMahon, Brien
death of
and Fuchs spy scandal
illness
inevitability of war with Russians
Joint Committee meeting on Super
and MTA
and second nuclear weapons lab
and Soviet bomb
and the Super
McMahon Act
McMillan, Edwin
and atomic bomb test
East Coast Rad Lab
at Los Alamos
phase stability
Synchrotron
war work
Manhattan Engineer District (MED)
Manhattan Project
Lawrence and
Oppenheimer’s grad students with
personnel security records
production facilities
security and counterintelligence
Soviet agents/spies in
technical history of
wartime clearances
Manley, John
resigned from GAC
Mansfield, Ken
Mark, Carson
Mark I (MTA)
Mark II (MTA)
Marks, Herbert
Marshall, George
mass spectograph
Russian interest in
Materials Testing Accelerator (MTA)
M.A.U.D. committee
M.A.U.D. report
May, Alan Nunn
May, Kenneth
May-Johnson bill
Mayer, Maria Göppert
opacity calculations
mesons
Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab)
secrets of, passed to Moscow
Mike (test)
Mikhailov, Pavel (Molière)
Military Liaison Committee (MLC)
Military Policy Committee
Miller, James Walter (Vague)
Millikin, Eugene
Mills, Mark
missile defense
missile defense shield (proposed)
MIT
radar lab
Mitchell, William
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Morgan, Thomas
Morse, Jack
motion picture industry
Communist infiltration of
Mulliken, Robert
Murray, James
Murray, Philip
Murray, Thomas E.
and clean bomb
and FBI investigation of Oppenheimer
on Mike
and second lab
and superbomb
and test-ban proposal
and verdict in Oppenheimer hearing
Murphy, Charles
Nagasaki
National Academy of Sciences
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)
National Research Council
National Security Council (NSC)
Nelson, Eldred
Nelson, Steve (Stefan Mesarosh)
death of
investigation of
spy charges against
surveillance of
neptunium
neutron bomb
neutrons
Nevada Test Site
Neylan, John Francis
and loyalty oath
oversight committee for Los Alamos
resignation from regents
Nichols, Kenneth
and case against Oppenheimer
and hydrogen bomb
and Oppenheimer hearing
and the Super
Nichols, Louis
Nier, Alfred
Nixon, Richard
NKVD/KGB
and American Communists
Nobel prize
Norstad, Lauris
nuclear arms race
nuclear arsenals
nuclear energy
nuclear explosions
nuclear freeze movement
nuclear power plants
nuclear standstill
nuclear weapons
morality of use of
openness about
second lab for
tactical
see also Livermore
nuclear weapons policy
nuclear weapons program
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
chemical processing plant
cyclotroneers at
gaseous diffusion plant
U-235 production
Office of Defense Mobilization
Science Advisory Committee
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Office of War Information (OWI)
Oliphant, Marc
Olive (test)
opacity calculations
Operation Argus
“Operation Candor”
Operation Castle
Operation Crossroads
Operation Greenhouse
Operation Hardtack
Operation Ivy
Operation Redwing
Oppenheimer, Frank
and atomic bomb test
banished from Rad Lab
and Chevalier incident
espionage
Exploratorium
FBI investigation of
helping with Calutrons
HUAC hearings
at Los Alamos
in Oppenheimer testimony
politics of
relationship with Oppenheimer
security clearance
wiretaps and mail cover on
Oppenheimer, Jacquenette Quann (“Jackie”)
Oppenheimer, Kathryn Puening (“Kitty”)
Oppenheimer, Robert
and AEC
alleged Communist Party membership
alleged delayed H-bomb
alleged involvement in spy plot
attacks on
and bomb project
Borden’s campaign against
cable to Lawrence on Trinity test
and Chevalier incident/investigation
and control of atomic energy
death of
director, Los Alamos
fame
FBI and
FBI file
friends of
and Fuchs spy scandal
on GAC
GAC meeting on Super
HUAC hearings
investigation of
Joint Committee hearings
knowledge of Soviet approaches to scientists
and Lawrence
leftwandering
loyalty questioned
new charges against
personal characteristics
political activism
postwar disaffection
postwar plans
and postwar research
reaction to success of atomic bomb
recruiting physics students
recipient of Enrico Fermi medal
reinvestigation of
relationship with brother
and second lab
security clearance
security clearance stripped
security file
as security risk
seminar on bomb physics (1942)
and Soviet bomb
and Soviet nuclear threat
and Soviet recruitment efforts
and Strauss
and the Super
surveillance of
under suspicion
and use of atomic bomb
values of
and verdict of hearing
Oppenheimer hearing
repercussions of
transcript of
verdict
Osborn, Frederick
Pan American Scientific Conference (1960)
“Panel on Long-Range Objectives (1948)”
Panofsky, Wolfgang (“Pief”)
Parsons, William “Deke”
particle accelerators
Pash, Boris
Oppenheimer and
and Project Alsos
Patterson, Robert
Pearl Harbor, attack on
Pearson, Drew
Peierls, Rudolf
Pentagon
and disarmament
Joint Research and Development Board
and radiological warfare
and second lab
and standstill idea
Teller’s briefing on H-bomb
Persian Gulf War (1991)
Pervukhin, Mikhail
Peters, Bernard
phase stability (cyclotrons)
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Phillips, Melba
physicists
experimentalists
letter to Roosevelt
theoretical
physics
cyclotron
high-energy
particle
theoretical
Pieper, N. J. L. “Nat”
Pike, Sumner
Pinon (test)
Pinsky, Paul
Pitzer, Kenneth
and Oppenheimer hearing
plutonium
critical mass
denaturing
production of
reactor-produced
Russian interest in
shipped to Los Alamos
spontaneous fission possibility
in superbomb
plutonium bomb
Polaris missile
see also W-47
President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC)
Presidio
Investigations Division
Project Alpine
Project Alsos
Project Lexington
Project Vista
Project Whitney
Rabi, Isidor
on GAC
and Oppenheimer hearing
opposition to Bevatron
plans for missile shield
proposed deal for Oppenheimer
and second lab
and the Super
racetracks
radar
radiation
biological effects of
created in atomic bomb
see also fallout; opacity calculations
radiation implosion
Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab)
alumni recalled for war effort
army contracts/projects at
basic research
on black list
bomb project at
budget
Calutrons
Communists with connections to
cooling of political passion at
cyclotroneers returning to
East Coast (MIT)
FAECT local at
file on employees of questionable loyalty
Frank Oppenheimer at
funding for
Lawrence director of
Lewis Committee tour of
Livermore outgrew
location of
and loyalty oath
mass spectograph
and medical research
military project at
MTA
official history of
Oppenheimer and
plutonium production
postwar
problems for, in FBI proceedings
radioactivity, concern with
Russian knowledge of
security issues
in Soviet espionage
Soviet physicists touring
spy hearings
suspect scientists fired from
transition from army to AEC
uranium experiments
uranium metal (stockpile)
Veksler invited to visit
war work at
workforce reduction
radiation sickness
Radin, Max
Radin, Paul
radioactivity
induced (artificial)
radiological warfare (rad war)
radioisotopes
medical uses of
Ramrod
Ramsey, Norman
Reagan, Ronald
Report to Our Colleagues
Reynolds, Wallace
Rickover, Hyman
Robb, Roger
Rockefeller Foundation
Rolander, Arthur
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
physicists’ letter to
Rosen, Arthur
Rowe, Hartley
Ruben, Sam
Russell, Louis
Ruth (test)
Rutherford, Lord
S-1 Committee
S-1 Project
“Sausage, the”
Schneiderman, William
Scientific Panel (Interim Committee)
Seaborg, Glenn
on GAC
radiochemistry lab at Berkeley
and the Super
Second World War
effect on Berkeley
scientists and
security
AEC
atomic secrets
Berkeley
bomb project
Manhattan Project
Oppenheimer’s politics and
Rad Lab
S-1 Project
Y-12
Segré, Emilio
Semenov, Nicholai
Serber, Charlotte
Serber, Robert
and atomic bomb test
at GAC meeting on Super
leaves Berkeley
at Los Alamos
loyalty hearing
and MTA
and new lab
postwar work
and the Super
Sewell, Duane
Site X
Site Y
Sloan, David
Smith, Cyril
Smyth, Henry DeWolf
electromagnetic separation (Isotron)
technical history of Manhattan Project (Smyth Report)
and Oppenheimer hearing
and the Super
Solvay Congress
Somervell, Brehon
Souers, Sidney
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Soviet Union
arms race
atomic bomb
bomb tests
consulates used for spying
and control of atomic energy
espionage
German invasion of
information passed to
and inspection plan
learning of bomb project
nuclear capabilities
nuclear testing
proposal regarding renunciation of Super
proposal to share atomic energy information with
recruiting Americans
Sputnik launch
State Defense Committee
and superbomb
test-ban
thermonuclear warheads
Spanish Loyalists
Special Committee on the Los Alamos Project (Univ. of Calif.)
Special Study Group in Air Force Intelligence
Spiers, Ron
spies
Bay Area
Canada
Los Alamos
in nuclear weapons program
Oppenheimer in plot (alleged)
targets for
see also espionage
Sproul, Robert Gordon
and army contract(s)
army-navy E award
and contracts with AEC
and loyalty oath
and Oppenheimer reinvestigation
recruiting Oppenheimer
Sputnik
spy hearings
staged bomb (H-bomb)
Stalin, Joseph
Starbird, Alfred
Stassen, Harold
State Department
Communists in
Panel of Consultants on Disarmament
and test-ban proposal
Stettinius, Edward
Stevenson, Adlai
Stimson, Henry
approach to Russia
Stone, Robert
Stone and Webster (co.)
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/“Star Wars”
Strauss, Lewis
AEC chairman
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