The Gun

Schmeisser and, 207–8, 433n

J

Jackson, Captain, 62

Jackson, Samuel L., 15

Japan, 56, 134, 327

and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 340n

Hotchkiss guns used by, 114, 116–17

rifle cartridges of, 166–67

weapons stockpiling and, 355

in World War II, 264

see also Russo-Japanese War

Joffre, Joseph, 132

Johns Hopkins University, 255

Johnson, Harold K., 292, 295–96, 306, 324

Johnson, Lyndon B., 294, 296

Jordan, 349, 355

Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perce, 61–62

K

Kadar, Janos, 238–39

Kalashnikov, Andrei, 185

Kalashnikov, Ivan, 170, 185

Kalashnikov, Mikhail Timofeyevich, 10–11, 143–55, 170–97, 204–13, 228, 398–408

adolescence of, 174

AK-47’s illicit uses and, 407–8

and AK-47’s tests and demonstrations, 187–88, 199, 205

and AK and AK-type rifle design and development, 4, 7–8, 16, 19, 144–55, 160, 185–86, 199–200, 345, 353, 403, 406–8

and AK and AK-type rifle production and distribution, 204, 207, 358–59, 406–8

arms design interests of, 180–85

arrest of, 181–82

atomic bomb and, 144

awards and honors of, 148, 175, 185, 188, 209–11, 242–43, 353, 400–403, 406–7

bronze bust of, 353–54, 401

business ventures of, 404

car owned by, 209–10, 212

childhood of, 146, 170–74, 177

Communist Party and, 4, 146–47, 174–76, 181–82, 185, 191, 210–11, 213, 244–45

education of, 171–72, 174, 182–83

exile of, 146, 148, 172–74, 177, 209–10, 212, 354, 405

experience with tanks of, 4, 174–78, 184, 210, 224

fame and popularity of, 192, 202, 204, 206, 209–10, 211n, 242–45, 400–401, 403, 406–7

and family of arms built around AK-47, 243–44

father’s death and, 173–74, 210

finances of, 147–48, 209–10, 212, 400, 404

injuries of, 144, 146, 151, 177–81, 185, 210

Izhevsk and, 182n, 205, 209–10, 243–45, 344–45, 398–400, 403–4, 406–7, 436n, 445n

legacy of, 405

memoirs of, 143, 151–52, 173, 179–81, 182n, 183, 194–95, 206, 211n, 408

military career of, 4, 147, 174–85, 188, 191, 206, 209–10, 224, 359, 400, 403, 406

at NIPSMVO, 143–48, 183–87

NIPSMVO’s closure and, 345–46

official biography of, 7, 150, 176–83, 190, 195, 210–11, 405

physical appearance of, 174, 193, 405

pride of, 184, 406–7

promotions of, 148, 359, 400, 403, 406

public duties of, 401–3

secrecy and, 211, 401–2

social persecution of, 244–45, 403

Soviet agricultural policy and, 171–72

sporting rifles designed by, 399

on Stalin, 212–13, 405

submachine gun designs of, 181–84

Supreme Soviet membership of, 148, 211–12

traveling of, 400, 403, 444n

on U.S., 405–6, 444n

Ustinov’s relationship with, 358–59

in World War II, 144, 146–47, 149, 151, 176–78, 180, 183, 185, 209, 224, 226

Kalashnikov, Nikolai, 170

Kalashnikov, Timofey A., 146, 170, 173–74, 176, 185, 206, 210

Kalashnikov, Viktor Mikhailovich, 181, 186

Kalashnikov, Viktor Timofeyevich, 172–73, 176, 185

Kalashnikova, Alexandra Frolovna, 170, 172–74, 176–77

Kalashnikova, Gasha, 172–73, 181, 185

Kalashnikova, Nelly, 210n

Kalashnikova, Nyura, 172–73, 181

Kalashnikova, Yekaterina Viktorovna “Katya,” 145, 147–48, 186–87, 210

Kanel, Boris L., 145

Karamojong tribe, 357

Karim, Balan Faraj, 393–95, 397

Kennedy, John F., 271

AR-15 and, 281, 284–85

Vietnam and, 281

Kennedy, Robert F., 323, 442n

KGB, 13, 150, 237, 249, 385, 407

Khadir, Amanj, 393–94

Khadir, Qais Ibrahim, 393–97

Khan, Ashrat, 10–11

Khan, Mohammad Daoud, 361

Kharkov, Valery, 208

Khartoum, 97, 102, 377

siege of, 78, 81

Khe Sanh, fighting near, 310, 335

Khiva, Russian advance on, 48–49, 57, 61

Khrushchev, Nikita S., 193, 344–46, 403

and AK-47 production and distribution, 202–3, 216–17

foreign policy of, 213–17, 221–23, 237, 265