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Asahi Shimbun, Chicago Tribune, Chugoku Shimbun, Los Angeles Times, Mainichi Shimbun, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Times of London, Washington Post, Japan Times and Advertiser, and the July and August 1945 editions of the Daily Mission, published by the 313th Bombardment Wing Information Office, Tinian, Marianas.
Tsunesaburo Asada
Jacob Beser
George Caron
Shin Endo
Russell Gackenbach
Leslie Groves
Kanai Hiroto
Kumao Imoto
Robert Lewis
Kazumasa Maruyama
Masaru Matsuoka
Richard Nelson
Kakuzo Oya
Charles Perry
Abe Spitzer
Henry L. Stimson
Paul Tibbets
Harry S. Truman
Theodore van Kirk
Tatsuo Yokoyama
Official interviews conducted by A. B. Christman, NOTS, China Lake:
Vice Admiral F. L. Ashworth, April 1969.
Dr. A. Francis Birch, February 1971.
Mrs. Robert Burroughs (formerly Mrs. W. S. Parsons), April 1966.
Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves, May 1967.
Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, May 1966.
Others:
Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets, December 1960 (Kenneth Leish); September 1966 (Arthur Marmor).
General Nathan F. Twining, November 1965 (Arthur Marmor).
And television documentaries:
“The Building of the Bomb.” BBC-TV, March 1975.
“Hot to Handle.” BBC-TV, September 1966.
Eric Sevareid in “Conversation with John J. McCloy.” CBS News Special in two parts, July 1975.
“The Day the Sun Blew Up.” BBC-TV, October 1976.
Index
Abe, Hiroshi, 115–17, 119, 141, 189–90, 263
Abel, William, 201, 275
Adachi, Dr. Sakyo, 120–21
Aioi Bridge, 220, 256, 257
Alamogordo (New Mexico), test-firing at, 86, 157, 171, 172–75, 178–79, 183
Albury, Don, 32–33
Allison, Charles, 200
Alvarez, Luis, 230–31
Arisue, Seizo, 44–45, 63–64, 99–100, 121–22, 161–63, 164, 168, 193–94, 274
Arnold, Henry, 16, 144, 145, 179, 191
Asada, Dr. Tsunesaburo, 42–43, 119–20, 274
Ashworth, Frederic L., 81, 87, 171
Atkinson, Hugh, 201
Atomic bomb(s)
appearance of, 238–39
“arming” of, 227, 233, 245–46, 250
building of, 38–39, 55–56
chain reaction needed for, 8
console for monitoring, 232, 238, 255
cover names for, 171
description of, 106–7
dome, in Hiroshima, 283
dropping of, 256–57
explosion of, 258, 262
fuzing mechanism for, 87, 103, 112, 230–31, 256
orders to use, 206–7, 217, 225
power of, 12, 72, 207, 228
production schedule after August 1945, 213
scientists “tinkering with,” 115–16
second attack using, 276–77
tactical requirements for delivery of, 49–50
test-firing of, 172–75, 228
worldwide reaction to, 273–74
See also: Interim Committee; Plutonium bomb; Uranium bomb
Atomic strike force
briefings of, 225–29, 236–38
choosing crews for, 32–33
final preparations for, 229–30
Awaya, Sachiyo, 110, 189, 258
Awaya, Senkichi, 60–62, 100, 118, 129, 199, 223–24, 234–35, 263
Balloon bombs, 120–21
Baumgartner, Charles, 200
Beahan, Kermit, 32, 55, 111–13, 256, 276
Beser, Jacob, 28, 31, 48, 49, 111, 236–37, 240, 281
during atomic mission, 244, 249–50, 255, 257, 258, 264, 265
and crews, 67
description of, 25
at Los Alamos, 36–38. 40–41. 86–87
on second strike, 275, 276
and security guard, 54–55, 77, 81
and Target Committee, 132–33
on Tinian, 157–58, 167–68, 181–82, 192–93, 196, 213, 216, 226
Bethe, Hans, 40
Blanchard, William “Butch,” 184–86, 206, 219
Bock, Frederick, 204
Bock’s Car, 204, 276
Bohr, Niels, 8
Bombsight, problems with, 68
Briefings before atomic mission, 225–29, 236–38
Britain
atomic research collaboration with, 91
representatives from, for atomic mission, 197, 225
Brode, Robert, 36
Brugge, Brian, 63
B-24s, 199–201
B-29s, 78–80, 96, 131–32
assignment of, for atomic strike, 227
crashes of, 158, 167, 241
new replacements, 103
pathfinders, 97–98
stripped of guns, 50, 52
Superdumbos, 229
Bubinsky, Joseph, 201, 202, 204
Buscher, Joseph, 24–25, 217–18, 225, 228, 229
Bushfield, David, 200
Byrnes, James F., 91–92, 110, 179, 277
Calipatria (California), 103, 104
Cannon, Clarence, 90
Caron, George “Bob,” 27–28, 29, 46, 49, 139, 147, 281
during atomic mission, 240, 241–42, 245, 248, 254–55, 257, 258, 262, 263, 264
on Tinian, 160, 183, 225, 226, 236
Cartwright, Thomas, 200, 275
Cheshire, Leonard, 197, 225, 275
China, 79, 156
Churchill, Winston, 91
and the atomic bomb, 191–92
in Potsdam, 177–78
CINCPAC, 80
Clark, Mark, 14
Classen, Thomas, 24, 25–26, 28, 29, 77, 180, 181, 218, 226, 234
Code names, 13, 140, 171, 198–99, 207–8
Compton, Arthur, 134, 135
“Coronet,” 140
“Crossroads, the,” 209