INDEX
Acheson, Dean
Adams, John
Addis, Dr. Thomas
Adler, Alfred
Adler, Felix
Alexander, Lynn
Alsos Mission
Anti-Communists
Allison, Sam
Alvarez, Luis
Arnstein, Edith. See also Jenkins, Edith
Atomic age
Atomic bomb: dropped on Japan; first test of; and Germany; horror of; and Niels Bohr; and Soviet Union; and United States; and H-bomb; and struggle for control of; and "Super bomb". See also Gadget, the; Manhattan Project
Atomic energy
Atomic Energy Commission. See United States Atomic Energy Commission
Bacher, Bob
Bacher, Jean
Baker, Mr. Nicholas. See Bohr, Niels
Baker, Zelma
Barnett, Henry
Barnett, Shirley
Baruch, Bernard
Benedict, Dr. Ruth death of; lesbian relationships of
Bernfeld, Siegfeld
Bernstein, Jeremy
Bethe, Hans; and Robert Oppenheimer
Bishop, Elizabeth
Blackett, Patrick M. S. (Baron)
Bloomsbury Group
Bohr, Aage
Bohrs, James
Bohr, Niels (aka "Mr. Baker")
Borden, William
Boring, Ed
Boué family
Boyd, William
Britain: and aid to Soviet Union; and bombing of Münster, Germany; declares war on Germany; and German atomic bomb; Germans bombard during World War II; honor Richard Tolman; and intelligence service; physicists from; and preparation for D-Day; rescue Niels Bohr; and Spanish Civil War; Richard Tolman liaison with; uranium research group and atomic bomb
Brooke, Rupert
Bruner, Jerome; and Ruth Tolman
Boulanger, Nadia
Buck, Pearl
Bush, Vannevar
Byrnes, James
Cabot, Anne
Cahn, Leni
Campbell, Helen
Caen, Estelle
Caen, Herb
California Institute of Technology (Caltech). See Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Tolman, Richard Chace
Chace, Elizabeth Buffum
Chadwick, Sir James
Chaves, Don Amado
Chaves family
Chevalier, Haakon; donates for Spanish refugees; friend of Robert Oppenheimer; and Soviets
Chickering, Alma
Chickering, Bill
Chickering family
Church, Frank
Churchill, Winston
Clark, Eleanor
Clark, Jean: friends with Jean Tatlock
Clark, Margot: friends with Jean Tatlock
Clayberg, Lin Ramseyer
Clouser, William
Communism; in USSR. See also Anti-Communists; Communist Party USA; Young Communist League
Communist Manifesto
Communist Party USA; and Frank Oppenheimer; Jackie Oppenheimer; and Jean Tatlock; and Joe Dallet; and Kitty Dallet; and Kitty Harrison; and Kitty Oppenheimer
Conant, James
Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. See United States Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Copland, Aaron
Dallet, Hilda
Dallet, Joe; and Communism; death of; and Kitty Ramseyer Dallet; and Spanish Civil War; in French prison
Dallet, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer; "common law" wife of Joe Dallet; and Communist Party USA; in England; and FBI; hears from Joe Dallet; learns of death of Joe Dallet; loves Joes Dallet; marries Stewart Harrison; offers Joe Dallet's letters for publication; returns to Joe Dallet; returns to United States; sells Daily Worker; separates from Joe Dallet; student at University of Pennsylvania. See also Harrison, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer; Ramseyer, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening
de Blonay, Hilde Vissering
de Blonay, Johanna
de Blonay family
Denmark
de Silva, Peer
Dickel Helene "Lanie" Ramseyer
Didisheim, Jane
Dostoyevsky, Fydor
Donovan, William J. ("Wild Bill")
Duffield, Priscilla
Duncan, Isadora
Dyson, Freeman
Dyson, Verena
Eagle Hill (Oppenheimer home in Berkeley, Calif.)
Edsall, John T.; friend of Oppenheimer
Einstein, Alfred
Eisenhower, Dwight D.; orders investigation of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Eliot, T. S.;
Ellis, Havelock
Emergency Committee in Psychology
Enola Gay (Boeing B-29 Superfortress)
Erikson, Erik
Ethical Culture School (New York City)
Ethical Culture Society. See New York Society for Ethical Culture
Farrell, Tom
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); and Kitty Dallet; and Kitty Oppenheimer; and Robert Oppenheimer; and Jean Tatlock; and Mary Ellen Washburn
Fenton, Ernest
Fenton, John
Fenton, Marjorie. See also Tatlock, Marjorie Fenton
Fergusson, Francis
Fermi, Enrico
Fermi, Laura
Fermi Award
Field, Herbert Haviland
Field, Letty: death of; friends with Jean Tatlock; mother of
Field family
Fisher, Anne. See also Tatlock, Anne Fisher
Franco, Francisco
Franklin, Benjamin
Freeman, Margery (sister of Ruth Benedict)
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Clara
Friedman, Ella. See also Oppenheimer, Ella Friedman
Fuchs, Klaus
Furman, Robert
Kusaka, Kiyokata, and wife
Gadget, the. See also Atomic bomb
Gallup, George
Garrison, Lloyd
Garrison, William Lloyd
Gartz, Gloria
Gell-Mann, Murray
General Advisory Committee (GAC). See United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
George (friend of Hugh and Jean Tatlock)
Germany; and atomic bomb; bombardment of England; invades Denmark; invades Soviet Union; and Jewish refugees; in North Africa; and persecution of Jews; and scientists; sinking of Lusitania; and spies; United States declares war against; United States fights against. See also Hitler, Adolf
Goebbels, Josef
Great Britain. See Britain
Groves, General Leslie; brings Frank Oppenheimer out for first test of atom bomb; military director of Manhattan Project; mission accomplished; names Robert Oppenheimer head of secret laboratory; orders Alsos Mission to check German nuclear bomb progress; presses for test of the Gadget; Robert Oppenheimer recommends Los Alamos for site of Manhattan Project; and Robert Oppenheimer; secretary for; staff of investigates Kitty Oppenheimer; test of atom bomb; witness for Robert Oppenheimer
Graham, Lillie Belle
Gray, Gordon
Grayson, Harry
Harrison, Helen
Harrison, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer Dallet: and Communist Party USA; divorces Stewart Harrison; as a horsewoman; marries Robert Oppenheimer; and Robert Oppenheimer; pregnant with Oppenheimer's child; and Stewart Harrison; student at University of California, Los Angeles. See also Oppenheimer, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer Dallet Harrison
Harrison, Richard Stewart marries Kitty Dallet; remarries; resembles Robert Oppenheimer; wife Kitty Harrison divorces
Heisenberg, Werner
Hempelmann, Louis
Hilgard, Jack
Hirohito (Japan's emperor)
Hiroshima, Japan
Hitler, Adolf; assassination attempt on; and atomic bomb; commits suicide; and Denmark's Jews and secret weapon; takes power in Germany
Hobson, Verna
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edg
ar; and Robert Oppenheimer; and hearing for
Horgan, Paul
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University: and Robert Oppenheimer
International Atomic Energy Commission
Italy; United States declares war against
J'Accuse (Wolfgang Liebeneiner, director)
Japan; atomic bombs dropped on; attacks Pearl Harbor; submarines off coast of California; surrenders; United States war against
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenkins, Edith
Joe-1 (Soviet's first nuclear bomb)
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Jung, Carl
Katz, Dan
Keitel, Apollinaire
Keitel, Bodewin
Keitel, Wilhelm
Kennan, George
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.
Kent, Mary Tolman
Keynes, John Maynard
Kipphardt, Heinar (play In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer)
Lansdale, John; testifies at Robert Oppenheimer security clearance hearing
Lauritsen, Charlie
Lauritsen, Sigrid
Lawrence, Ernest; and Frank Oppenheimer; and Robert Oppenheimer; opposed to politics; and "the uranium problem"
Lawrence, Molly
Le Gallienne, Eva
Le May, Curtis
Lewis, Roger
Liebeneiner, Wolfgang
Lilienthal, David; chairman of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; testifies for Robert Oppenheimer
Lilienthal-Acheson Report
Lofgren, Ed
Los Alamos, New Mexico; bomb developed at; chosen for Manhattan Project; top British physicists at. See also Atomic bomb; Technical Area (secret heart of Manhattan Project)
Los Alamos Ranch School
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Macfarlane, Donald
Macfarlane, Jean
Manhattan Engineering District (called Manhattan Project)
Manhattan Project; and General Leslie Groves; secret heart of; traitors among. See also Oppenheimer, J. Robert; Technical Area
Marks, Anne Wilson
Marks, Herbert
Marshall, George
Marshall Plan
MAUD Committee (British uranium research group)
May, Rollo
McCarthy, Joseph
McCarthy, Mary
McCarthy era
McKibbin, Dorothy
Mead, Margaret: friend of Ruth Benedict; friend of Ruth Valentine
Military Intelligence
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (poem "Renascence")
Miller, George
Moreno, Dr. Jacob Levi
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Morrison, Emily
Morrison, Phil
Murrow, Edward R.
Mussolini, Benito
Nagasaki, Japan
National Defense Research Committee
National Research Council
Nazis; and atomic weapon; euthanasia program; refugees; and World War II;
Nelson, Margaret ("Maggie")
Nelson, Steve
Newcomb, Ted
New York Mineralogical Club
New York Society for Ethical Culture
Nichols, Kenneth
Nuclear bomb. See Atomic bomb
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
Olden Manor (Princeton, N.J.): home of Robert Oppenheimer and family
Oppenheimer, Ella Friedman (mother of J. Robert Oppenheimer); death of. See also Friedman, Ella
Oppenheimer, Frank (brother of J. Robert Oppenheimer); and brother, Robert Oppenheimer; and California Committee on Un-American Activities; career of; and first test of nuclear bomb; he and wife start museum in San Francisco; higher education of; and House Un-American Activities Committee; leaves Communist Party USA; marriage of; member of Communist Party USA; moves to Colorado; at Oak Ridge during World War II; as object lesson in imperfections of democracy; and physics; trip to Corsica and Sardinia; trips with brother; teaches at University of Minnesota; resigns from. See also Oppenheimer, Jacquenette ("Jackie") Quann
Oppenheimer, J. Robert; answers Atomic Energy Commission charges; appears on Edward R. Murrow CBS show See It Now; asked to resign as Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee consultant and refuses; asked to share information with Soviets; and purported defection to; and astrophysics; and atomic bomb; and Aunt Hedwig; and automobile driving; and Bhagavad Gita; begins work on "uranium problem,"; birth of; birth of son; and brother, Frank Oppenheimer; builds house at St. John, Virgin Islands; a celebrity; calls Stewart Harrison wanting to marry Harrison's wife; chairman of Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee; classified documents removed from his possession; and conference on atomic theory in London; and Communist family members and friends; and confusion on sexual matters; considers himself loyal American; contemplates suicide; as "Coordinator of Rapid Rupture" to design atom bomb; creates new field of theoretical physics; and daughter her; death of; death of mother; death of father; decides to fight loss of top-security clearance; defends use of atomic bombs on Japan; delivers influential BBC Reith lectures in England; delivers lecture at Cornell University; delivers lectures at University of Oregon; and depression; and directorship of Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University; and drinking; early schooling of; and emotional breakdown; enemies of; and FBI; family of; and his father; father names him Julius; and father-in-law; "Father of the Atomic Bomb; and FBI; and Fermi Award; and first test of nuclear bomb; names it Trinity friends of. See also individual names; and the Gadget; and German relatives; girlfriends of. See also individual names; gives William James Lectures at Harvard; has throat cancer; and H-bomb; and hearing before Atomic Energy Commission panel; witnesses for and against; and his admirers; home of, at Los Alamos, New Mexico; hires defense attorney; and hydrogen bomb; and J. Edgar Hoover, Hoover; and hearing for; says not a Communist Party member; and Kitty Harrison; and Kitty Oppenheimer; ladies' man; and leftist organizations (later called Communists); last illness and death of; at Los Alamos, New Mexico; honored at; at Los Pinos, New Mexico; and Lost Mine; loyalty questioned; and "love"; and Manhattan Project (Los Alamos). See also Oppenheimer, J. Robert: and atomic bomb; marries Kitty Harrison; to meetings at Berkeley Radiation Laboratory; meets with head of Atomic Energy Commission; memorial service for; and mother; death of; and mother-in-law's suicide; and New Year's Eve; and New York Mineralogical Club; nickname of; and nuclear physics; as object lesson in imperfections of democracy; and offers for postwar employment; opposed to "Super" bomb; parents of; and Boris Pash;and Ava Helen Pauling; and Linus Pauling; in Perro Caliente, New Mexico; personality of, described; and physics; and "poison apple; possible espionage agent; postgraduate work of; primary author of Lilienthal-Acheson Report; at Princeton, New Jersey; questioned by Boris Pash; refuses treatment for wife's alcoholism; reputation battered; and sailing; and secretaries; and Security Hearing Panel; skeptical about nuclear-powered aircraft and hydrogen bombs; and son, Peter; chooses wife over him; and Spanish relief; suggests site at Los Alamos; at summer camp; student at Cambridge; student at Harvard; student at Gottingen, Germany; studies at University of Leiden in the Netherlands; studies in Zurich; suffers with colitis; takes leave of absence from teaching; talks to reporter about Atomic Energy Commission hearing; and Jean Tatlock; teaches at California Institute of Technology (Caltech); teaches at University of California, Berkeley; testifies before Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; testifies before House Un-American Activities Committee; and theoretical physics; conference on, held in his honor; and Ruth Tolman; and the Tolmans; and top-secret project during World War II; top-secret security clearance questioned; rescinded; by Atomic Energy Commission; takes pills and alcohol; traced by Military Intelligence; travels to Berkeley; travels to Brazil to lecture; travel to Europe to lecture; travels to Colorado; travels to Japan; tries to help German Jews escape Hitler; tries to po
ison tutor; troubled adolescence; and U.S. government; and Virgin Islands; willing to work with "pro-bomb" people; works with federal government in Washington, DC; witness for former student; worried about being caught in anti-Communist hunt; writes autobiography. See also Strauss, Lewis
Oppenheimer, Jacquenette ("Jackie") Quann; in Berkeley, California; conflict with Kitty Oppenheimer; member of Communist Party USA; leaves Communist Party USA; moves to Colorado; in Perro Caliente, New Mexico; opinion of Kitty Oppenheimer; Ruth Tolman's opinion of; she and husband start museum in San Francisco;
Oppenheimer, Julius (father of J. Robert Oppenheimer); and artworks; and son Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer Dallet Harrison (wife of Robert Oppenheimer); abandons daughter; accuses husband's secretary of affair with him; and atom bomb testing; and atomic energy policies; and automobile accident; birth of daughter; of son; calls Dean Acheson; considers more education; and communism; death of; dependent on husband's secretaries; and drinking; erratic behavior of; faculty wives dislike; falls and breaks ankle; and family's Nazi connections; and FBI; and gardens; and General Leslie Groves; gives up graduate classes; goes home to parents without new daughter; hears of attack on Pearl Harbor; and horseback riding; and husband's Fermi Award; and Joe Dallet; life of; at Los Alamos; fails to fit in at; and security at; works in doctor's lab at; marriages of; and morality of atomic bomb; and her mother; commits suicide; estranged from; and motherhood; and Robert Oppenheimer; and his throat cancer and death; jealous of; and psychological problems; personality of described; plans biography of Robert Oppenheimer; pregnant with daughter; with son; in Princeton, New Jersey; fails to fit in; at Perro Caliente, New Mexico; returns to Berkeley, California, after war; and sailing; and Security Hearing Panel; and Robert Serber; and sister-in-law; suffers with colitis; pancreatitis; starts Crossroads Nursery School; takes up watercolors; and Jean Tatlock; testifies at husband's Atomic Energy Commission hearing; and Ruth Tolman; travels to Brazil; travels to Japan; and treason; and Virgin Islands; visits Europe; works in lab at University of California, Berkeley; and women friends. See also Dallet, Katherine ("Kitty") Vissering Puening Ramseyer
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