and election of 1940, 194, 200
at Harvard University tercentenary, 155–56
health of, 319
and Lend-Lease, 203, 210, 213, 215
and neutrality legislation, 167, 169
and New Deal, 109, 149–51, 279
and Pearl Harbor attack, 234–35
and rubber crisis, 246–49
and Teheran conference, 312
Roosevelt, Theodore, 20, 33, 53
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 139
Root, Elihu, Jr., 118
Rosenberg, Jakob, 144
Rowe, Hartley, 425, 427
Roxbury Latin School, Massachusetts, 23–31, 36, 133
Royal Air Force (RAF), 198, 211
Royall, Kenneth, 354
Royce, Josiah, 116
Rubber Survey Committee (RSC), 247–49
Ruskin, John, 81
Rust, Bernhard, 148
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, 97
Sacco-Vanzetti case, 115–16, 247
Sachs, Alexander, 185
Saltonstall, Leverett, 288, 445
Santayana, George, 33, 39, 78, 81, 116
sarin, 261
Saturday Evening Post, 450
Saturday Review of Literature, 353, 381, 393
Schine, G. David, 450
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 157, 198, 415, 416
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 132, 478–80
Science and the Modern Man (Whitehead), 119
Scientific American magazine, 23
Seaborg, Glenn, 227, 240, 295, 435–36, 493
See It Now (CBS), 472
Segrè, Emilio, 227, 308
Selective Service Act, 195, 199, 364, 401
Selective Service System, 425
Senate Appropriations Committee, 451
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 210, 360, 445, 463
Senate Military Affairs Committee, 195
Serber, Robert, 294
Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 34
Shape of Things to Come, The (Wells), 117
Shapley, Harlow, 414
Shattuck, Henry L., 115, 280
Shaw, Louis Agassiz, Jr., 138
Sheldon Emory Professorship of Chemistry, 107
Sheppard Pratt hospital, 483, 484
Sherwin, Martin J., 317, 391
Sherwood, Robert, 380, 437
Shirer, William, 139
Shriver, Sargent, 490
Sibert, William L., 69, 75
Sierra Club, 99
Signet Society, 40, 129
Simon, Sir John, 163
Slums and Suburbs: A Commentary on Schools in Metropolitan Areas (Conant), 485–86
Smith, A. Calvert, 145, 206, 215, 261
Smith, Al, 109
Smith, Alice, 372
Smith, Cyril, 295, 425
Smith, Richard Norton, 36, 134
Smyth, Henry DeWolf, 314, 343, 460
Smyth Report, The, 314, 343, 380, 404
So Little Time (Marquand), 35–36
Social Register, 12
Society of Harvard Dames, 18
Solvay Process Company, 54
sonar, 236, 290
Sorensen, Theodore, 495
Spaatz, Carl A., 341, 342, 408
Spanish Civil War, 160, 162, 264
Spaso House, Moscow, 6
Special Committee on Atomic Energy, 356, 360
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 302
Sperry, Willard, 129
Sputnik, 476–78
Stagg Field demonstration, 258, 259
Stalin, Joseph, 2, 4, 6–7, 223, 291, 312, 315, 333, 341, 347, 368, 395, 396, 400, 452
Stanford University, 132
Standley, William, 196
State, US Department of, 320, 396, 414, 415, 425, 433, 436, 446, 449, 450, 453, 454, 469
Stein, Max, 56
Stettinius, Edward R., 320
Stieglitz, Julius B., 79
Stimson, Henry L., 167, 260, 284–87, 308, 352, 355, 383, 414
and atomic bomb, 4, 233, 253–54, 314, 316, 318–20, 323–26, 329, 341–44, 347, 357–58
and Conant, James Bryant, 222, 324, 390–91
and Harper’s essay by, 384–92
memoir of, 227, 382, 388, 391
and Potsdam Conference, 330, 336
stock market crash, 108
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 246
Stowe, Leland, 383
Strassmann, Fritz, 184
Strauss, Lewis, 422, 424, 429, 456, 460
Strong, George V., 192–93, 304
Strouse, Jean, 81
Strutt, John William (3rd Baron of Rayleigh), 91
Styer, Wilhelm D., 244, 254
submarine warfare, 58, 76, 223, 228, 290–91
Suez Canal crisis, 469
Super, the. See thermonuclear hydrogen bomb
superacidity, concept of, 93, 105–6
Supreme Court of the United States, 163, 485
Suzuki, Kantaro, 328, 341
Swarthmore College, 420
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 17–18
Sweezy, Alan R., 170–71
Swing, Raymond, 390
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 54
System of Qualitative Analysis (Noyes), 26
Szilard, Leo, 184, 185, 227, 241, 262, 263, 268, 312–13, 355, 356, 371
tabun, 261
Taft, Robert A., 194, 435, 454
Target Committee, 329, 384
Tatlock, Jean, 405
Taussig, Frank, 39, 116
tear gas, 75
Teheran Conference, 312
Teller, Edward, 267, 268, 298, 306, 309, 320–21, 332, 333, 335, 350, 411, 422–25, 428, 431, 438, 455, 456, 460, 461, 476
Thayer, Charles, 450
Thayer, Joseph Henry, 80
thermonuclear hydrogen bomb, 266, 294, 309, 316, 411, 422–33, 438, 455–59, 483
Thin Man bomb, 299, 308
Thomas, Charles A., 295, 309, 365
Thompson, Dorothy, 367
Thoreau, Henry David, 277
Thorndike, Edward Lee, 132
Thorpe, Jocelyn, 91
Three Centuries of Harvard (Morison), 33
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll), 492
Time magazine, 133, 156, 236, 290, 328, 343, 356, 363–64, 374, 377, 387, 474, 478, 479
Tinian, 336, 338, 342
Tizard, Sir Henry, 200, 209, 217, 281
Tokyo, firebombing of, 328, 328n, 342, 383, 388
Tolman, Richard C., 165, 192, 193, 262, 336, 369
Top Policy Group, 233, 234, 243
Tracy, Spencer, 381
Trident Conference, 285
Trinity test, 321, 322, 330–36, 338, 381, 419
tritium, 423
Truman, Harry S., 4, 322, 364, 367, 368, 372, 373, 381, 382, 399, 410
and atomic bomb, 323–25, 329, 333, 337, 338, 342–45, 351–54, 356–59, 370, 383, 389, 472
and Berlin crisis, 400
and election of 1948, 402, 414
and European aid, 394, 395
and hydrogen bomb, 428, 429, 431, 457
and Korean War, 433, 472
and loyalty program, 407, 416
and Potsdam Conference, 330, 333, 341–42, 347
and Red Scare scandals, 412, 413
and Soviet atomic bomb, 421
and Stimson Harper’s essay, 389
and universal military training bill, 410
Truman-Attlee-King agreement, 359, 361
Truman Doctrine, 394, 395
Tuck, James, 310
Tucker, Jonathan B., 261
Tunis, John, 78
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 39, 116, 150
Tuttle, William M., Jr., 142, 144
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report (Conant), 165
Twitchell, Edward, 19, 47
Twitchell, Helen, 46–47, 55
Twitchell, Paul, 23
Twitchell, Roger, 19, 23, 36, 46, 54
U-boat campaign, 58, 76, 223, 228, 290–91
Ulam, Sta
nislaw, 438
United Nations, 5, 7, 352, 353, 358–62, 365, 474
charter, 324
Security Council, 369, 433
United States forces:
Army Corps of Engineers, 251
Army Military Intelligence Service, 265–66
Army Special Engineering Detachment, 310
Eighth Air Force, 302
Eighth Army, 435
“Fighting Sixty-Ninth” Regiment, 195
Marine Corps, 327
Sixth Army, 319
Third Army, 312
Third Fleet, 381
Twentieth Air Force, 328, 341, 344
Twenty-Ninth Company of Massachusetts’ Volunteers, 18
United States Information Service (USIS), 449, 450
USS Augusta, 338
USS Halibut, 291, 345
USS Missouri, 7
United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 381
universal military training bill, 410
University of Berlin, 144
University of California at Berkeley, 93, 99, 158, 182, 200, 227, 249, 254, 255, 257, 259, 263–68
University of Chicago, 79, 144, 228, 231, 256–57, 262, 268, 295, 351, 371
Met Lab, 240–41, 254, 257–59, 301, 312–14, 324, 355, 384
University of Göttingen, 148
University of Heidelberg, 146–48
University of Louvain, 49
University of Michigan, 235, 290
University of Moscow, 5
University of Munich, 102
University of Virginia, 191, 233
“Uranium Bomb, The” (Richards), 183–86
uranium program, 184–85, 214–15, 219, 220, 227–34, 239, 241, 242, 252, 255, 259, 267, 295, 298, 311, 320, 366
Urey, Harold, 182, 232, 239, 241, 252, 255, 306, 356
V-1 rocket, 307, 308, 318
V-E day, 322
Van Dusen, Henry P., 196
Vandenberg, Arthur H., 211
Vatican, 350
Versailles Treaty, 100, 101, 154, 167
Vietnam, 461, 492
Vietor, Karl, 144
Vital Center, The: The Politics of Freedom (Schlesinger), 415
Voorhees, Tracy, 434, 489
Wahl, Arthur, 227
Walker, Jimmy, 191
Wall Street Journal, 279
Wallace, Henry A., 150, 231, 233, 248, 322, 372, 374, 402, 414
Walsh, John Raymond, 170–71
Walsh-Sweezy controversy, 170–73
“Wanted American Radicals” (Conant), 276–78
Warburg, James, 196
Warner, Samuel Bass, Jr., 404, 482
Washington Post, 246, 339, 366, 410, 472
Washington Star, 345
Washington Times-Herald, 404
Wavell, Archibald, 221
Weeks, Edward, 410
Welles, Sumner, 199
Wells, H. G., 117, 196, 276, 348
Welte, Samuel, 56
Wendell, Barrett, 39
Wendt, Gerald, 79
Westheimer, Frank, 106
What We Are Fighting to Defend (Conant), 479
Wheeler, Burton K., 210, 223
Wheland, George W., 106
While Time Remains (Stowe), 383
White, John, 16
White, Theodore H., 130
White, William Allen, 168–69, 189, 190, 202, 203
Whitehead, Alfred North, 119
Whitman, Walt, 277
Whitney, Willis, 44
Wigner, Eugene P., 241, 268
Wilcox, William G., 69, 72
William H. Nichols Medal, 105
Williams, Tennessee, 483
Willkie, Wendell, 194, 200, 201, 210
Willoughby, Ohio, 69–73, 77, 293
Willoughby Republican, 73
Willstatter, Richard, 62, 102
Wilson, Carroll L., 193, 206, 211
Wilson, Robert, 298
Wilson, Woodrow, 41, 49, 53, 58, 64, 86
Winant, John “Gil,” 211–12, 216, 289
Winnacker, Rudolph, 387
Winne, Harry A., 365
Wood, Leonard, 52–53
Woodrow Wilson Award for Distinguished Service, 482
World Brain (Wells), 348
World Destroyed, A: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (Sherwin), 317
World War I, 48–54, 57–72, 74, 78, 94, 101, 132, 146, 163, 188, 208, 218, 260, 272, 293, 339, 384
World War II, 1, 76, 166–69, 178, 186–205, 206–24, 235–38, 260–61, 327, 337–42, 344–45, 382–83, 390, 399
Yale University, 33, 146, 147, 175
Yalta Conference, 402
Young, Bradford, 378
Ypres, Belgium, 61, 62, 103
Zimmermann, Arthur, 58
Zuster, Wilhelm Z., 95
Zyklon-B, 261
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The Atlantic Magazine Archives: 30
Time & Life Archives: 39
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