Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
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Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) or MI6, 186, 201, 204
Segré, Emilio
belief in communist influence on Bruno’s choice of Harwell, 117, 120, 139
induced radioactivity, experiments with, 18
mention of Bruno’s communist sympathies to FBI, 148–150
neptunium and plutonium, research of, 132
as one of Via Panisperna Boys, 15–16, 22 (photo)
recommendation of Bruno for job in Oklahoma, 54, 70
slow-neutron phenomenon, patent on, 22
snub of Bruno at Amaldi’s birthday celebration, 286–287
snub of Bruno at conference, 252
Seligman, Henry, 133 (photo)
Sereni, Alfonsina, 6
Sereni, Emilio
Comintern, connection with, 65, 135
escape from Paris, 57–59, 62
influence on Bruno, 32, 47
pre–World War II communist activities, 6–7
prison experiences of, 65
as prominent post–World War II communist, 65, 171–172
suspected involvement in Bruno’s defection, 189, 311, 313
Siegbahn, Manne, 40
Siegert, Arnold, 119
Sillitoe, Percy, 194
Sissakian, Alexei, xvi
Skinner, Herbert, 132, 166, 244
Slow-neutron method, 149
Slow-neutron phenomenon, patent on, 24, 197–199
Solar neutrinos, 107–108, 266–268, 271–273, 293
Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, on muon- and electron neutrinos, 262
Soviet Union
atomic bomb, detonation of, xiii, 198
chain reactions, investigations of, 69
Czechoslovakia, invasion of, 279
Doctors’ Plot, 240–241
GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence Agency), 134–137, 139, 141
Hungarian Revolution (1956), 248, 279
hydrogen bomb, quest for, 142, 229–231
Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and North Korea, invasion of, 116
nuclear energy, use of for peaceful purposes, 245
nuclear reactor program, 131–132, 218–220
nuclear research, interest in, 77–79
portrayal of as peacemaker, 49
request for uranium from US, 131–132
spy network, xiv, 78, 79, 80, 89, 97, 101, 103, 127–130, 134–137, 305 (See also Cohen, Lona; Fuchs, Klaus; Hall, Ted; Philby, Kim)
See also KGB
Spies, Soviet. See Soviet Union, spy network
Stafford, Godfrey, 120
Stalin, Joseph, 49, 127, 132, 135, 137, 215, 219, 226, 278
Standard Model of particles and forces, 265–266
Steinberger, Jack, 112, 253, 264, 288, 300
Stellar neutrinos, 256–257
Strange particles, 110, 235–237
Strassmann, Fritz, 43–44
Strauss, George, 194
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), Ontario, 273–274
Sudoplatov, Pavel, 97
Suite Française (Némirovsky), 56
Sun, light elements in, 267
Supernovas, 253, 257, 271
Svetlov, Mikhail, 278
Sydney Morning Herald, on Bruno’s disappearance, 187
Synchrocyclotron, 225, 250
Synchrophasotron, 250–251, 261
Szilard, Leo, 24
Tabet, Duccio, 54, 62, 150
Tabet, Eugenio, 270, 286
Tamara, Sonia, 58
Tau-neutrinos, 272
Teller, Edward, 141
Thermonuclear “hydrogen” bomb, 141, 142
Thomson, George, 244
Thorez, Maurice, 32
Thorium, 100
Thornton, Robert, 149, 151
Time magazine, on fission experiments of Joliot-Curie’s team, 50
Times (London), on physicists’ nuclear nonproliferation campaign, 244
Trabacchi, Giulio, 15–16, 23
Transuranium elements, 67
Tritium, 11, 141, 143, 218, 219, 228, 230, 266
Truman, Harry S., 207, 244
Tube Alloys project, 80, 87
Turchetti, Simone, 313
U-233, 100–101, 102
U-235, 9–10, 51, 66–68, 100, 128
U-238, 10, 51, 66
L’Unità (newspaper), 64, 171, 199, 240, 279
United Kingdom
graphite reactors, interest in, 96
nuclear bomb, discovery of feasibility of, 79–80
peaceful uses for nuclear energy, interest in, 117
as refuge for communist sympathizers, 281
See also Chalk River experimental facility; MI5
Universal weak force, 112–113, 236, 257–258
Uranium, xii, 43–46, 67–69, 83–84, 94
See also U-233; U-235; U-238
USSR. See Soviet Union
Van de Graaff generator, 42–43
Veksler, Vladimir, 225
VENONA project, 202–204
Via Panisperna Boys, 15–24, 22 (photo), 26
W bosons, 258, 263
Walton, Ernest, 26
War, importance of nuclear physics in, 67–69
Weak force, 112–113, 236, 257–258
Well Surveys, 70–71
Wick, Gian Carlo, 40, 41, 252
Wittka, F., 177
Yang, C. N., 264, 288
Yatskov, Anatoly, 304–305
Zabotin, Nikolai, 135–137
Zel’dovich, Yakov, 69
Zero Energy Experimental Pile (ZEEP), 102–103
Zheleznykh, Igor, 260
Zichichi, Nino, 252
Zilberberg, Xenichka, 6