Наследие Хиросимы - Эдвард Теллер
Ulam, Stanislaw: hydrogen bomb, work on, 47-48
United Nations, 25; Baruch Plan, 25, 27; police force, 296-97; shortcomings, 295
United States: appeasement of Russia, 75-76; attitude toward scientists, 147-49; education in, 150-63; leadership, scientific, 145-46; moratorium on nuclear tests, 189; postwar attitude in weapons development, 22-23; preparedness, 237, 243; retaliatory force, 202
4; rocket development, 125, 126-27; Russia’s first atomic bomb, reaction to, 232; war, nuclear, attitude toward, 234-35 , United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 18
Uranium: atom, 98-99; availability, 111-12; neutrons, 99; protons, 98; U-235, 99, in, 175; U-
Urey, Harold, 37
Van Allen, James A., 130 Van Allen belts, 130-31 Van Vleck, J. H., 38 Verne, Jules, 123 Vishinsky, Andrei, 86 Von Karman, Theodore, 7 von Neumann, John, 7, 41, 126
War, nuclear: avoiding, 235-37; civilian defense as deterrent, 244; disarmament and, 235; effects of, 242-43; limited warfare, 277-89; massive retaliation, 230-35; mutual deterrence, 233-35; pessimism, 241-42; preparedness for, United
States, 237, 243; radioactivity, effects of, 242, 253-54; Russia, attitude of, 234-35, 244; toll, without shelters, 246; United States, attitude of, 234-35; warning time, 245-46 War, preventive, 232 Warfare, limited. See Limited warfare
Weapons development, 50, 61-62, 124-27, 184; current state of, 202; disinterest in, 40-42; future, 290; government nonsupport, 22-23; hydrogen bomb, decision to make, 46; Livermore Laboratory, 66; missile gap, 125-27, 129; nuclear gap, 204-5; secrecy as a barrier to, 31-32; Weapons Committee meeting, 52-53. See also Nuclear weapons Weather control, 92-93 Weinberg, Alvin: Metallurgical Laboratory, member of, 100; at Oak Ridge Laboratory, 101 Weiselman, Mrs. H. E., 5 Weisskopf, Victor, 210, 212 Wheeler John, 48; secrecy, atomic, 210
Wigner, Eugene, 7; Metallurgical Laboratory, member of, 100; at Oak Ridge Laboratory, 101; reactor school, founder of, 101 World Court, 295-96 World government, 209, 237; Atlantic Union, 293-94; Common Market, 294; defined, 291; NATO, 294; understanding and, 292-93; World Court, 295-96
Zinn, Walter: Metallurgical Laboratory member of, 100; at Argonne Laboratory, 101