Fuchs’s arrival at, 155–57
Fuchs’s espionage at, 160–61, 163–64, 166, 169, 171–73, 251, 265–66
Trinity test, 165–69, 178, 266, 268
Los Alamos Main Gate, 127, 156, 163, 166
Los Alamos Ranch School, 157
Luther, Martin, 19, 23, 28
Lutheranism, 19, 22–23, 37, 41
Luxemburg, Rosa, 25, 349
McCarthy, Joseph (McCarthyism), 287
McKibbin, Dorothy, 156, 167
Maclean, Donald, 318–19
McMahon, Brien, 169, 172
McMahon Act, 169, 172, 178, 182–83, 262, 318, 324
MacMaster, Gilbert, 68, 69
Mahnruf (newsletter), 48, 72
Makins, Roger, 272, 274–75
Malleson, Tatiana, 224, 238, 279
Manhattan Project, 4, 5, 7, 143–44, 146–52. See also Los Alamos
Marriott, John, 236, 249
Martin, Arthur
Fuchs case, 5–15, 195–209, 218–19, 225–28, 235–38, 241, 242, 250, 251, 282
forced resignation, 249
interrogation, 237–38, 264–65
memo, 2–3, 5–7, 196–97
MI5 file, 8–15, 195–97
surveillance, 198–209, 227–28
Peierls surveillance, 217–18
Martin, Joan, 6
Marx, Karl, 25, 42, 81, 346
Mathew, Theobald, 271, 272–73
MAUD Committee, 134, 137–38
May, Alan Nunn, 180, 320
Mayer, Maria Goeppert, 150–51, 158, 161
May-Johnson Bill, 169, 172
Meitner, Lise, 132–33
Mendeleev Congress, 82–83
Meusel, Alfred, 35, 131
MI5. See also specific persons
bugging of British Communist Party, 4, 10
covert “purge system” of, 287–88
Fuchs’s arrest, 271–84
Fuchs’s confession, 254–55, 257–67, 286, 289
Fuchs’s interrogations, 231–32, 237–43, 247–48, 250–51
Fuchs’s postmortem of case, 299–303
Fuchs’s security file, 3, 8–15, 81, 131, 140, 300–301
Fuchs’s security investigation, 152, 195–209
Fuchs’s security review, 179–80, 181–82, 299–301
Fuchs’s surveillance, 198–209, 211–17, 221–22, 224–25, 227–30, 233, 234–35, 237, 239, 240–41, 258–59
SCR and, 82
MI6, 7, 200–201, 225
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 94–95, 137, 301
Montcalm, Louis-Joseph de, 121
Moorehead, Alan, 319–20
Moorlager, 69
Mortimer, Raymond, 320
Moscow Trials, 85–86
Mott, Nevill, 78–79, 81–83, 86, 89, 130, 281, 334
Münzenberg, Willi, 72, 82
Mussolini, Benito, 81, 165
Nash, John, 334
Nazis (Nazi Germany)
anti-Jewish legislation, 46, 55, 57
election of 1930, 25, 28
election of 1932, 28–29, 39, 40, 43, 47
election of 1933, 53, 62–64
Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, 52–53
internment of POWs in Canada, 12, 104, 106–7, 109, 112, 114, 115, 117–18, 122, 207
Kristallnacht, 145
military build-up, 96, 97, 98–99
Operation Barbarossa, 137
Reichstag fire, 55–56, 59, 72, 73
seizure of power, 23, 26–30, 31–34, 36–37, 39–40, 43–50, 52–53, 59–65, 79
Netherlands, 96, 98
Neukölln, 62, 63
New York Times, 134, 275, 280
“Night of the Long Knives,” 58
Nitschke, 334–37, 339
Nobel Prize, 27, 79, 89
Normandy landings, 150
North Korea, 311–12
nuclear fission, 132–34, 136, 137–39, 149
Nuremberg Laws, 121
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 8, 92, 144, 195, 198, 265
Odenwaldschule, 20, 21, 22, 28, 31, 35, 36, 58, 190–91
Official Secrets Act, 137, 139, 140, 229, 267, 272
OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate), 207, 294
Old Bailey, 295–96
Operation Barbarossa, 137
Oppenheimer, Robert
Fuchs’s arrest, 280
at Los Alamos, 149–50, 152, 157–61, 165, 182, 184, 291
opposition to use of atomic bomb, 170
Paddington Station, 221, 237, 238, 263, 321
Pajarito Plateau, 156
Papen, Franz von, 44, 46–47, 52, 53, 61
Paris, 71–74, 103
Paterson, Alexander, 124
Patterson, Geoffrey
Fuchs case, 226–28, 242, 310
interrogation, 232, 233, 237–38, 303–4
Heinemann investigation, 218–19
Peierls, Genia
background of, 136
in Birmingham, 135–36, 282
Fuchs’s imprisonment, 278, 279–80, 294
Fuchs’s investigation, 214, 224
Fuchs’s relationship with, 162, 282–83
Fuchs’s release, 326
Mott’s visit, 83
Peierls, Rudolf “Rudi”
atomic research of, 132–37, 139, 143–44, 149–52, 157–58, 161–62, 167, 184, 207–8
Fuchs’s arrest, 275–78, 279
Fuchs’s imprisonment, 294
Fuchs’s investigation, 13, 201–2, 214, 235–36, 263, 287
Fuchs’s release, 326
Fuchs’s return to Germany, 346
at Los Alamos, 157–62, 167, 172
MI5 investigation and surveillance of, 13, 179, 201–2, 211, 217–18, 237
Mott’s visit, 83
at University of Birmingham, 130, 132, 133, 135–36, 139, 177, 184, 201, 207–8
Peierls-Frisch Memo, 132–34, 136, 137
Penney, William, 321–22
Pentland Hills, 91–92
Perrin, Michael
background of, 197
Fuchs case, 13–14, 197–98, 201–2, 292, 293, 300, 303, 309, 322
arrest, 272–73, 274
confession, 258, 259–61, 263, 265, 266, 268–70
forced resignation, 248–49, 251, 252
interrogation, 238, 241–42
trial, 289
Kearton and, 201–2, 226
Russian atomic bomb test, 1–2
Perutz, Max, 120
Philby, Kim, 284
Plains of Abraham, 114
plutonium, 149, 152
Pohle, Vera, 223–24, 279
Poland, invasion of, 94, 106
Polish Airlines, 328, 331
Pontecorvo, Bruno, 318, 320
Portal, Charles, 233, 234, 242, 249, 264, 272, 274–75, 292, 293
Potsdam Conference, 168–69, 175
Preussenschlag, 46–47, 53
Proceedings of the Royal Society, 79, 83
Putin, Vladimir, 349
Quakers, 21, 37, 41, 63–64, 65, 68, 78, 84, 89, 92, 93
“Quantum Mechanical Investigation of the Cohesive Forces of Metallic Copper Metals” (Fuchs), 78–79, 83
Quebec Agreement, 141–42, 182, 198, 201
Queen Mary, 178
Queen’s University, 218
Rackwitz, Arthur, 29, 62, 63, 69, 90–91, 334–35
Radomysler, Asik, 301–3
Railway House Hotel, 253–54
Rantzau, Otto Graf zu, 53
“Raymond.” See Gold, Harry
“Red Scare,” 286–87
; Red Shock Squad, 66
Red Spark, 41–42
Red Student Group (RSG), 46, 65–66
Red Students (newsletter), 36
Reichsbanner, 27, 41, 44, 56–57
Reichstag fire, 55–56, 59, 68, 72, 73, 81, 336
Religious Socialists, 37, 62
Religious Society of Friends. See Quakers
Revolutionary Student Group, 32
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 61
Richmond Park, 180
Riesengebirge, 65
Rio Grande, 156
Robbins, Joseph Arnold, 304, 307–8
Robertson, James, 217–18, 274
Fuchs and Arnold, 206, 208, 221, 228–29, 238–39, 253, 254, 258–59
Fuchs’s confession, 260, 261, 263, 269–70
Fuchs’s surveillance, 198–203, 206, 208, 211–12, 221, 223, 224–25, 234–35, 238–39, 250
Rockefeller Foundation, 159
Röhm, Ernst, 58
Rolland, Romain, 72
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 138, 140–41, 165
Atlantic Charter, 7, 140–41, 176, 198
Quebec Agreement, 141–42, 182, 198, 201
Rosenberg, Ethel, 287, 308, 334
Rosenberg, Julius, 287, 308, 334
Rotblat, Joseph, 168
Rote Burg, 68–69
Rowlands, Archibald, 233, 234
Royal Society, 120, 184, 206
Russell, Bertrand, 82
Rüsselsheim, 19–20, 200
Russian Revolution, 25, 40, 41, 82, 95, 286
Rust, Bernhard, 58
Sakharov, Andrei, 322
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 162
Saturday Evening Post, 320
Sawyer Hill, 162
Schönefeld Airport, 325, 331
Schücking, Walther, 32–33, 57
Scottish Enlightenment, 95
Scottish Refugee Committee, 96
Secret Intelligence Service. See MI6
Security Service. See MI5
SED. See Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Seeburg, 43, 45, 52, 53
Serpell, Michael, 206–8, 300, 301–3
Seven Years’ War, 114, 120–21
Shady Hill School, 190–91
Shawcross, Hartley, 295–98, 316–17
Shell Mex House, 198, 201, 216, 242
Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army (SIS), 7, 195–96. See also Venona project
signals intelligence (SIGINT), 287–88
Sillitoe, Percy
background of, 231
Fuchs and FBI, 286, 292–93, 304, 311
Fuchs’s interrogation, 231–34
Fuchs’s postmortem of case, 299–301
Fuchs’s surveillance, 248–49
Halperin and, 218
Moorehead book, 319
Simon, Francis, 134, 138–39, 281
Sinclair, Upton, 72
Skalweit, August, 39, 52, 53, 54, 57
Skardon, William James “Jim,” 334
Fuchs’s arrest, 281–82, 283
Fuchs’s confession, 254–55, 257–64, 265, 271
Fuchs’s interrogations, 238–40, 241–42, 250–51, 270, 294–95, 300, 303–4, 305, 311, 313–16, 321–22
Fuchs’s surveillance, 202–3, 212
Fuchs’s trial, 289–90
Moorehead interview, 319
Skinner, Elaine, 215, 240, 250
Skinner, Erna
background of, 215
death of, 315
Fuchs’s arrest, 273, 276, 277, 279, 283–84
Fuchs’s imprisonment, 293–94, 314–15
Fuchs’s relationship with, 189, 208, 214–17, 222–23, 239, 240–41, 249–54, 261–63, 269, 289, 311, 319, 326, 337
Fuchs’s surveillance, 211, 213, 215, 217, 222–23, 224, 240–41
Moorehead book, 319
Skinner, Herbert
background of, 215
death of, 315
Fuchs’s arrest, 275–76, 277
Fuchs’s imprisonment, 293–94, 314–15
Fuchs’s relationship with, 189, 208, 215–16, 238, 251–53, 264, 281
Fuchs’s resignation, 248
Fuchs’s surveillance, 211, 213, 215, 217, 224
at University of Bristol, 215–16
at University of Liverpool, 208, 238, 248, 249, 250
Skyrme, Tony, 144, 150, 151, 160, 161, 201–2, 225, 236
Smith, Officer, 276–77
Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), 25, 26–27, 32–33, 36, 66
election of 1930, 25, 28
election of 1932, 40–41, 43, 47
election of 1933, 62, 63
Emil’s joining of, 22, 25, 346
Socialist Student Union, 26–27, 29–30, 32
Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), 332, 335, 336, 337, 344, 345, 349
Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the USSR (SCR), 81–82, 85–86
Some of My Best Friends Are Soldiers (Halsey), 160
Southampton College, 130
South Korea, 311–12
Soviet Union
arms race, 169–71
atomic bomb project, 1–2, 169–70, 219, 266, 267–68, 322
invasion of Manchuria, 169
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 94–95, 137, 301
Mott’s visit, 82–83
Operation Barbarossa, 137
post-war period, 2, 4, 176
Spanish Civil War, 85, 92, 102, 103, 116–17
SPD. See Social Democratic Party of Germany
Stafford Prison, 314–15, 321
Stalin, Joseph, 40, 94, 333
Potsdam Conference, 168–69, 175
during World War II, 137, 267
Stasi, 334, 339, 343
Steenbeck, Max, 347
Strategic Bombing Survey, 295
Sturge, Paul, 95
Sturmabteilung (SA), 41, 42, 44, 46–47, 53, 54, 58, 60, 68, 73
Sudetenland, 90, 92
Sunkel, Reinhard, 33–34, 36, 46, 57–58
Swarthmore, 83–84, 145
Tale of Two Cities (Dickens), 295
TASS Russian News Agency, 296, 298
Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 66–68, 336
Technische Hochschule, Dresden, 336
Tel Aviv University, 57
Teller, Edward, 150–51, 158–59, 164, 267, 322
Teller, Mici, 164, 172, 214
Thälmann, Ernst, 40–41, 43, 64, 72
Thomson, G. P., 134–35
Thysville, 125
Trafalgar Square, 237
Traitors, The (Moorehead), 320
Trinity test, 165–69, 178, 266, 268
Truman, Harry S., 2, 219
atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 165, 168
Korean War, 312
Potsdam Conference, 168–69, 175
Turnip Winter of 1916–17, 21
Uffington White Horse, 177
Ulam, Stan, 322
Ulbricht, Walter, 332, 335, 337, 338, 342, 343, 345
United Kingdom general elections of 1945, 175
United Nations, 170–71, 176
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 170–71
University of Adelaide, 249
University of Berlin, 48, 66
University of Birmingham, 200
Fuchs at, 130, 132, 133, 135, 139, 201, 207–8, 263
Peierls at, 130, 132, 133, 135–36, 139, 177, 184, 201, 207–8
University of Bristol, 9–10, 74, 77, 78–79, 81–86, 215–16
University of Cambridge, 87, 116, 216
Univers
ity of Edinburgh, 86, 87–89, 91–92, 94–95, 129–30, 282
Born at, 86, 87–89, 94, 96, 129–30, 175, 237, 282
Fuchs at, 86, 87–89, 91–92, 94–95, 129–30, 282
University of Frankfurt, 57
University of Göttingen, 78, 86, 87, 88
University of Kiel, 17, 32–37, 39, 40–42, 44–54
fee increase protests, 34–35, 36
University of Leipzig, 24–27, 29–30, 159, 317, 339, 348
Emil Fuchs at, 186, 188, 190, 191, 228, 229, 232, 238, 269, 317, 324
University of Liverpool, 208, 238, 248, 249, 250
University of Pennsylvania, 307
uranium U-235, 133–34, 136, 138, 141, 149, 151, 158, 165, 169, 172, 265
uranium U-238, 133, 138, 149
van der Lubbe, Marinus, 55
Väter der tausend Sonnen (documentary), 350
Venona project, 7, 189–90, 197, 198, 292–93
Fuchs case, 195–96, 199, 201, 217, 226–27, 233, 238, 241, 242–43, 251, 257, 283, 284
Versailles Treaty, 32, 43, 46
Victoria, Queen, 116
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day), 165
Vidal, Gore, 157
Vishinsky, Andrei, 85–86
Vivian, Valentine, 200
von Bardeleben, Frau, 68, 73
von Neumann, John, 119–20, 161, 292, 322
Wagner, Gisela, 225
Wakefield Prison, 323–25, 327
Wall Street Crash of 1929, 25–26
Wartburg Castle, 28
Washington Post, 285
Weimar Republic, 21–22
election of 1930, 25, 28
election of 1932, 28–29, 39, 40, 43, 47
Weisband, William, 189–90
Weisskopf, Victor Frederick “Viki,” 161
Weiz, Herbert, 349
Wells, H. G., 82
West, Rebecca, 320–21
West Berlin, 331, 333
Westborough Hospital, 290–91, 347
Westemigranten, 336
White, Dick, 6, 196
Fuchs’s arrest, 272, 280, 290
Fuchs’s interrogation and confession, 230, 231, 238, 242, 251, 310
Fuchs’s surveillance, 198, 199, 200
Whitson, Lish, 285, 286, 292, 293, 299
Wiggs, C. W., 116, 117, 118, 120–21, 122–23
Wilhelm II, 20, 25, 32, 111
Wills, Henry H., 78
Wills, Henry Overton, I, 78
Winchell, Walter, 292, 293
Windscale Piles, 183, 266
Wolf, Karl, 57
Wolf, Markus, 348
Wolfe, James, 121
Wood, Arthur, 157
Woodbrooke Quaker Centre, 65, 68
Woolf, Virginia, 82
Woolworth Building, 144
World Committee Against War and Fascism (1933), 72, 336–37
World Congress of Youth Against War and Fascism (1933), 71, 72, 73–74, 336–37
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