Beser, Jacob, 28, 31, 48, 49, 111, 236–37, 240, 281
during atomic mission, 244, 249–50, 255, 257, 258, 264, 265
and crews, 67
description of, 25
at Los Alamos, 36–38. 40–41. 86–87
on second strike, 275, 276
and security guard, 54–55, 77, 81
and Target Committee, 132–33
on Tinian, 157–58, 167–68, 181–82, 192–93, 196, 213, 216, 226
Bethe, Hans, 40
Blanchard, William “Butch,” 184–86, 206, 219
Bock, Frederick, 204
Bock’s Car, 204, 276
Bohr, Niels, 8
Bombsight, problems with, 68
Briefings before atomic mission, 225–29, 236–38
Britain
atomic research collaboration with, 91
representatives from, for atomic mission, 197, 225
Brode, Robert, 36
Brugge, Brian, 63
B-24s, 199–201
B-29s, 78–80, 96, 131–32
assignment of, for atomic strike, 227
crashes of, 158, 167, 241
new replacements, 103
pathfinders, 97–98
stripped of guns, 50, 52
Superdumbos, 229
Bubinsky, Joseph, 201, 202, 204
Buscher, Joseph, 24–25, 217–18, 225, 228, 229
Bushfield, David, 200
Byrnes, James F., 91–92, 110, 179, 277
Calipatria (California), 103, 104
Cannon, Clarence, 90
Caron, George “Bob,” 27–28, 29, 46, 49, 139, 147, 281
during atomic mission, 240, 241–42, 245, 248, 254–55, 257, 258, 262, 263, 264
on Tinian, 160, 183, 225, 226, 236
Cartwright, Thomas, 200, 275
Cheshire, Leonard, 197, 225, 275
China, 79, 156
Churchill, Winston, 91
and the atomic bomb, 191–92
in Potsdam, 177–78
CINCPAC, 80
Clark, Mark, 14
Classen, Thomas, 24, 25–26, 28, 29, 77, 180, 181, 218, 226, 234
Code names, 13, 140, 171, 198–99, 207–8
Compton, Arthur, 134, 135
“Coronet,” 140
“Crossroads, the,” 209
Cuba, 55, 77–78
the 509th in, 81, 84–85
Cyanide capsules, 241
Death ray, 43, 120
Dehart, “Pappy,” 113
Doll, Ed, 226, 229, 232, 236
Doolittle, James, 97
Dougherty, Dora, 54, 96
Downey, William, 69–70, 198, 237–38
Dulles, Allen, 64, 99, 100, 121, 122, 168–69, 190–91
Dumbos, 229
Duzenbury, Wyatt, 33, 46, 48–49, 147, 183, 184, 225, 226, 242, 281
during atomic mission, 247, 258
preflight check of Enola Gay, 238–39
Early, Steve, 108
Eatherly, Claude, 56–57, 67, 77–78, 111, 113–14, 204
attempt to bomb Imperial palace, 186–87, 188
description of, 24, 26–27
mental health of, 57, 197
since 1945, 280–81
on Tinian, 183
as weather scout, 217, 252, 253
Eatherly, Joe, 280
866th Bombardment Squadron, 199–202
Einstein, Albert, 7, 65–66
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 14
Ellison, Buford, 201
Enola Gay, 232, 284
controversy over name, 233
crew of, 238, 281
departure of, from Tinian, 239–244
flight of, 244–51, 254–58, 262, 263–65
follow up attack of, 275
return of, to Tinian, 269
Ent, Uzal G., 11–12, 13, 14
Falls, Lawrence, 200
Farrell, Thomas, 175, 207–8, 218, 233, 241, 266, 269
Ferebee, Thomas, 25, 28, 47–48, 67–68, 102–3, 172, 219–20
description of, 31–32
during atomic mission, 244, 255, 256, 257, 258
since 1945, 281
skill of, 185
on Tinian, 179–80, 224–25, 236
First Ordnance Squadron, 87, 94–96, 103, 112, 167, 232, 234
509th Composite Group, 67
attempts to break up, 179–80, 184
celebration for, following mission, 267–68
in Cuba, 78, 84–85
hostility toward, 166, 198
practice missions over Japan, 186–87, 204–5, 208
reunions of, 281
security of, 165–66
on Tinian, 154–57, 165–66, 180–81, 196–97
in Wendover, 113–14
Flanagin, Rudolph, 200
Formosa, 168
Franck Report, 136
Fuchida, Mitsuo, 18, 118, 251, 268–69, 282
Fujii, Shoji, 115
Full House, 227, 253
Furman, Robert, 169–70, 175–77
Fuzing system, tests of, 103–5, 112–13, 230–31
Gackenbach, Russell, 30, 158, 183
Genda, Minoru, 17–18, 143, 283
Germany, surrender of, 128
Giles, Barney, 13
Ginga bomber, 120
Göring, Hermann Wilhelm, 273
Great Artiste, 204–5, 218, 226, 227, 230, 239, 244, 247, 249, 256, 257, 266, 276
“Great God K, The,” 8
Greenglass, David, 40–41
Grennan, Eugene, 29–30, 183, 253
Gromyko, Andrei, 123
Groves, Leslie, 55, 66, 80–81, 86, 90–93, 123, 124–25, 145–46, 218
and “arming” of bomb, 227, 233–34
and code names, 171, 198–99
description of, 15–16, 30–31
and LeMay, 184
and “publicity” of Enola Gay’s departure, 239
and security, 31, 181
and target selection, 70–72, 92, 134, 136–38, 144, 215
at test-firing of plutonium bomb, 172–74, 175
and time schedules, 72, 115, 213
Guam, 18, 74, 75, 78–79, 81, 126, 209
“Guillotine, The,” 38
Handy, Thomas T., 206–7, 215
Haruna, 199, 200
Hashimoto, Mochitsura, 33–35, 72–75, 126–27, 208–213, 282
Hata, Shunroku, 142–43, 162, 188–89, 193, 199, 201, 224, 234–35, 251, 257, 282
headquarters of, 163–64, 274
Hirohito, Emperor, 61, 161, 169, 190, 194–95, 277, 278
Hiroshima, 22, 102, 115–16, 125–26, 186
air raids on, 100–101, 236, 252
communications conference in, 235, 251–52, 254
conditions in, prior to atomic attack, 58–62, 87–88, 189, 223–24, 253–54
description of, 18–21
destruction in, following attack, 261–63, 269
military headquarters in, 142, 143, 163–65
military police in, 130
relief for, 274
as target selection, 132, 136, 137, 143–45, 214–15, 219–20, 225, 227, 253
today, 283
Hiroshima Castle, 20, 62, 130, 214, 254, 261–62
Hiroshima Pilot, The (Huie), 281
Hirota, Koki, 162
Hiroto, Kanai, 202, 203
Honshu, 140
Hopkins, James, 204–5
House Committee on Appropriations, 90
Huie, William Bradford, 280
I.58, 33–35, 72–75, 127, 209–213
Imai, Kizo, 151–55, 187–88, 244, 282–83
Imoto, Kumao, 251, 274
Imperial Japanese Army, 21
Imperial Japanese Navy, 33
Imperial palace, 186, 194–95
Incendiary bomb raids, 97–98
Indianapolis, 101, 127, 170, 171, 282
attack of, 210–13
choice of, to transport bomb components, 117
descriptio
n of, 175–77
Interim Committee, 125, 134–36
Iwo Jima, 88, 101, 120, 256
as “pit stop” for atomic mission, 216–17
rendezvous at, 249
Jabbit III, 227, 253
Jacobsson, Per, 64, 168–69, 190–91
Japan
army intelligence of, 44–45, 63–64, 99, 163–64
atomic research in, 42–43
bombing raids in, 235
defense plans of, 188
internal political situation in, 161–62
invasion plans for, 140–41, 156, 179
military police of, 129–30
and peace negotiations, 64, 99–100, 122, 162–63, 168–69, 190–91
and Potsdam Proclamation, 195–96
surrender of, 277–78
war criminals of, 282
Japan Radio, 126, 129
Jeppson, Morris R., 167, 225, 229, 233, 236, 281
on atomic mission, 246, 249, 250, 255, 258
description of, 103–4
Johnston, Robert, 200, 202, 203
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 140, 179
Kaitens, 72–75, 208–9, 211–12
Kamikazes, 51–52, 65, 99, 101, 117–18, 143, 251, 281–82
Katayama, Colonel, 251, 274
Keitel, Wilhelm, 41, 273
Kempei Tai, 129–30, 165, 202–4, 214, 253, 274–75
Kennedy, John F., 283
“K Factor, The,” 8
Kido, Marquis Koichi, 161–62
King, Admiral E. J., 80–81, 87, 179
King, John, 27, 28, 53, 54
Kirkpatrick, Camillous, 200
Kirkpatrick, E. E., 155, 181
Kobe, 98
Koiso, Kumaki, 121
Kokura, 132, 136, 145, 186, 225, 227, 262, 275–76
Korea, 168
Kure Harbor, 127, 200
Kyoto, 71–72, 132, 136–38, 186, 191, 219
Kyushu, 122, 140, 141, 142–43, 153, 163, 276, 282
Lansdale, John, 11–13, 26, 36, 37
Laurence, Bill, 236, 240
Lawrence, Ernest O., 40, 134
Leahy, William D., 89, 173, 179
LeMay, Curtis, 78–80, 97–99, 144–45, 156–57, 180, 206, 207, 283
and final plans for attack, 219–20, 225, 231
Lewis, Robert, 32–33, 45–49, 52, 111, 138–40, 147–48, 242–44, 281
background of, 46–47
crew of, 67, 139
log kept by, during atomic mission, 240, 242, 245, 247, 249, 256, 264–65, 281
practice missions of, 45–46, 103–4, 113, 204–5
and Sweeney, 112
and Tibbets, 54, 76–77, 182, 208, 218, 226, 233, 244–45
on Tinian, 158–61, 236
Leyte, 209, 210
Lindbergh, Charles, 46
Lonesome Lady, 200–201, 202, 204
Long, John, 201
Looper, Durden, 200
Loran beam, 134, 247
Los Alamos (New Mexico), 7–8, 36–40, 86–87
choice of as atomic laboratory, 37
removal of bomb components from, 169–70
Soviet espionage ring at, 40–41
Lucky charms used by crew of Enola Gay, 241–42
MacArthur, Douglas, 80, 207
McCloy, John J., 140
McKibben, Dorothy, 36
McKnight, Charles, 227, 249, 256
McVay, Charles Butler, III, 176–77, 210, 212, 282
Malik, Jacob, 162
Manchuria, 168
Manhattan Project
background of, 7–8
codes used by, 171
cost of, 8, 90
political controversy over, 89–93
security of, 11, 13, 26–27, 29–31, 36, 37, 52, 56–57, 93–95, 105–7, 237
Target Committee meeting of, 132–34
Mao Tse-tung, 79, 230
Mariana Islands, 17, 18, 63, 74, 87, 153, 216
Marquardt, George, 227, 238, 247, 256
Marshall, George C., 72, 91, 92, 136, 137, 138, 179, 206
Maruyama, Kazumasa, 60–62, 101–2, 118, 189, 199, 223–24, 235, 258, 263
Marvin, Donald, 200
Matsuoka, Masaru, 214, 223
“Meetinghouse,” 97–98
Meiji, Emperor, 195
Mitsubishi works, 20, 223
Molnar, Julius, 200, 202, 203
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 123, 276
Mount Futaba, 17, 21, 57, 141, 202, 262
Nagasaki, 191, 215, 225, 227, 252, 279, 281
atomic attack on, 276
Nagoya, 98
Nara, 251
Nazi war criminals, 273
Neal, Ralph, 201
Nelson, Richard, 139, 147, 158–60, 181, 225, 236, 240, 242, 247, 255, 281
New York Times, The, 174–75, 236, 240, 242
Niigata, 136, 145, 186
Nimitz, Chester, 80, 87, 207
Nolan, James, 169–70, 175–77
No More Pearl Harbors (Fuchida), 282
Nuclear research, 7, 91
in Japan, 42–43
No. 91, 227, 231, 238, 244, 247, 249, 256, 266
Office of Strategic Services, 64, 163
Okamoto, Seigo, 121, 122, 163, 168
Okayama, 98
Okinawa, 87, 101, 117, 122, 127, 156, 164, 209
Olivi, Fred, 113
“Olympic,” 140
Omaha (Nebraska), Martin bomber plant at, 131, 138–40
1027th Air Matériel Squadron, 56
1395th Military Police Company, 56
Onishi, Takijiro, 51–52
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 8, 37–40, 41, 72, 86, 87, 134–36, 169–70, 173–75, 207
Oppenheimer, Katherine, 41
Osaka, 98, 119
Oya, Kakuzo, 45, 63, 163, 188, 193–94, 235, 251, 257, 262, 282
Palau Islands, 209
Parsons, William “Deak,” 11, 13, 38–39, 81, 96, 106–7, 171, 176, 236, 255
“arming” of bomb in flight, 227, 233–34, 245–46
at briefings before mission, 225, 227–28
death of, 281
at departure of Enola Gay, 239, 241
on Tinian, 197
Pathfinders, 97–98
Patterson, Robert, 90–91
Payette, Hazen, 26, 180–81, 204, 217, 225, 228
Pearl Harbor, 7, 18, 65, 282
Pedersen, Roy, 201, 202
Penney, William, 197, 225, 275
Perry, Charles, 27, 53, 55, 69, 77, 165, 181, 198, 218, 234
celebration plans of, 267–68
P-47 fighter, 50
Philippines, 51, 209, 210
Photography, use of during atomic mission, 231, 265, 269
Piskor, Walter, 200
Plutonium bomb, 72, 86, 135, 157, 171
dropping of, on Nagasaki, 276
test-firing of, 171, 172–75, 228
Potsdam, 190–91
Potsdam Conference, 177–79, 197
Potsdam Proclamation, 194–96, 218, 277
Power, Tom, 97–98
POWs, American, 63, 164–65, 204, 214–15, 223, 253, 254, 262
fate of, 274–75, 282
Practice missions, 48–49, 53, 68–69, 103–5, 111–13
over Japan, 186–87, 204–5
Prince of Wales, 43, 58
Proximity fuze, 103, 112, 256
development of, in Japan, 42–43, 120
Purnell, William, 176
Radar, 134
bombing by, 146, 186
use of, on atomic mission, 232, 236–37, 250, 255, 256
Radio Guam, 126
Ramsey, Norman, 11–12, 13, 16, 36, 86
Rayburn, Sam, 108
Repulse, 43, 58
Rescue operation plans, 229
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 273
RiGu, Prince, 189, 251, 254, 257, 274
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 109, 111
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 7, 8, 15, 65, 66, 89–90, 91, 106, 168
death of, 107–9, 111,
121
and Hiroshima, 22, 100, 102
Rota, 156, 161, 185
Russia. See Soviet Union
Ryan, James Mike, 201
Sachs, Alexander, 7, 64–66
St. Lo, 52
Saipan, 18, 120
Salton Sea, 16, 48, 67, 103
Samurai tradition, 21, 51–52, 72
Sato, Naotake, 276
Scientists
at Los Alamos, 8, 36–41
and second thoughts about use of atomic bomb, 65–67, 136
and security, 31
on Tinian, 181
at Wendover, 55
Seabees, 156
Shape of Things to Come, The (Wells), 273
Shikoku, 249
Shima, Dr. Kaoru, 87–89, 125–26, 199, 224, 235, 251, 258
Shima Clinic, 87, 254, 261
Shimonoseki, 251
Shimpu, 51, 99
Shock waves, 41, 48, 49, 263–64
Shoumatoff, Madame Elizabeth, 108
Showa, 61
Shumard, Robert, 139, 147, 160, 225, 226, 236, 240, 242, 247, 255, 281
Silverplate, 13, 16, 53, 85, 131
603rd Air Engineering Squadron, 56
Slotin, Dr. Louis, 87