“Unbelievable Destructive Power”

I. MANHATTAN Project

II. TUBE ALLOYS Project

III. G.N. Flerov’s 1942 deduction

ENORMOZ

I. Klaus Fuchs

A. SONYA

B. Harry Gold/RAYMOND

II. David Greenglass

A. Julius Rosenberg

III. Ted Hall/MLAD

Decision to use the Bomb

I. Revenge and Racism

II. Military commitment to Manhattan Project

III. Diplomatic anti-Soviet maneuvering

IV. “Think of all the kids who won’t be killed”

A. Intelligence Failure

The End of the War

I. Hiroshima

II. Soviet declaration of war

III. Nagasaki

Atomic Competition

I. US Plan (Baruch Plan)

A. UN Atomic Energy Commission

B. Shared fissionable materials and knowledge

C. UN monopoly

D. International inspections

II. Soviet objections

II. Beria takes over ENORMOZ

III. Soviet sources dry up

IV. Britain builds its own bomb at Harwell

V. US Long Range Detection Program

A. CENTERING/COTTONSEED
B. Alert No. 112

VI. H-Bombs, 1952-3

A. Fission bombs vs. fusion bombs

VENONA

A. Meredith Gardner of ASA

B. “One-Time Pads” get two-timed

C. The Busts

A. Fuchs, Gold, Greenglass, the Rosenbergs, Hall…