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Authors: Denise Kiernan
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #Science, #War, #Biography, #History
Manhattan Project directed by,
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Meitner and,
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security measures and,
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Westcott’s meeting with,
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Y-12 plant and,
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Hahn, Otto,
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Nobel Prize awarded to,
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Hall, Harold,
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Hall, Helen,
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Brown, Helen Hall
Hanford, Washington (Site W),
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Happy Valley trailer encampment,
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amusement fairway at,
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laundry in,
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shopping in,
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streetlights in,
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telephones in,
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water supply in,
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Harrison, George L.,
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Harshaw Chemical Co.,
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Harwit, Martin O.,
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Hastings, Doc,
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Hawaii,
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Heisenberg, Werner,
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Hempelmann, Louis,
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Hendrix, John,
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Hepburn, Katharine,
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Hill, the,
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Los Alamos, N.Mex.
Himmler, Heinrich,
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Hinton, Joan,
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Hirohito,
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Hiroshima,
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Hitler, Adolf,
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death of,
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H. K. Ferguson Company,
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Hoff, Geraldine,
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Hoffman, Bernard,
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Holly, Arthur,
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Compton, Arthur
Holy Sonnets
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Hornbeak, Tenn.,
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House Military Affairs,
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Howland, Dr.,
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HP-12,
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Cade, Ebb
hydrogen peroxide,
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Indianapolis,
USS,
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informants,
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intelligence agents,
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Intelligence and Security Division,
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Interim Committee,
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
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International Friendship Bell,
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Iowa State College,
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isotopes,
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radioactive,
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Italian Navigator,
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Fermi, Enrico
Italy,
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Iwo Jima,
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J. A. Jones Construction,
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James, Harry,
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Japan,
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Allied occupation of,
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bombing of Tokyo,
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Pearl Harbor,
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Potsdam Proclamation and,
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surrender of,
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U.S. relations with,
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Japan, atomic bombing of,
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decision made,
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Hiroshima,
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leaflets dropped on cities,
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Nagasaki,
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Stimson’s statement on,
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Truman and,
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Warren’s trip to assess aftermath of,
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Jeffries, Zay,
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Jennings, John, Jr.,
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Jones, David,
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Jones, Dorothy (“Dot”),
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Wilkinson, Dorothy Jones
Jones, J. A.,
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Jones, Willard Worth “Shorty,”
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Jones, Woodrow,
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K-25 plant,
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bomber plane and,
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closing of,
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construction of,
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gaseous diffusion process at,
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name of,
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shape of building,
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size of,
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start of full operations at,
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K-27 plant,
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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry,
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Kalibr (David Greenglass),
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