Character List - Bomb ​ Use this chart to help you keep track of the hundreds of names of physicists, freedom fighters, government officials, and others involved in the making of the atomic bomb.

Scientists Political/Military Leaders Spies

Robert Oppenheimer - Winston Churchill -- Prime Klaus Fuchs - physicist in ​ ​ ​ designed atomic bomb. He was Minister of England Manhattan Project who gave accused of spying. secrets to Russia Franklin D. Roosevelt -- ​ Albert Einstein - convinced President of the United States Harry Gold - spy and Courier ​ ​ U.S. government that they for Russia KGB. Narrator of the needed to research fission. Harry Truman -- President of story ​ the United States Enrico Fermi - created first Ruth Werner - Russian spy ​ ​ chain reaction Joseph Stalin -- dictator of the ​ Tell Hall -- physicist in Soviet Union ​ Igor Korchatov -- Russian Manhattan Project who gave ​ physicist in charge of designing Adolf Hitler -- dictator of secrets to Russia ​ bomb Germany Haakon Chevalier - friend who ​ Werner Reisenberg -- Leslie Groves -- Military approached Oppenheimer about ​ ​ German physicist in charge of leader of the Manhattan Project spying for Russia. He was designing bomb watched by the FBI, but he was not charged. Otto Hahn -- German physicist ​ who discovered fission

Other scientists involved in the Manhattan Project: ​ Aage Niels Bohr George Kistiakowsky Joseph W. Kennedy Richard Feynman Arthur C. Wahl Frank Oppenheimer Joseph Rotblat Robert Bacher Arthur H. Compton Hans Bethe Karl T. Compton Robert Serber Charles Critchfield Harold Agnew Kenneth Bainbridge Robert Wilson Charles Thomas Harold Urey Leo James Rainwater Rudolf Pelerls Crawford Greenewalt Harold DeWolf Smyth Leo Szilard Samuel K. Allison Cyril S. Smith Herbert L. Anderson Luis Alvarez Samuel Goudsmit Edward Norris Isidor I. Rabi Lyman Briggs Seth Neddermeyer Edward Adler James Chadwick Mark Oliphant Vannevar Bush Edward Teller James B. Conant Niels Bohr Edwin McMillan James Franck Norman Ramsey Emilio Segre Jesse Beams Norris Bradbury Eric Jette John Douglas Cockcroft Owen Chamberlain Ernest O. Lawrence John Dunning Otto Frisch Eugene Wigner John von Neumann Philip Abelson Glenn Seaborg John H. Williams Philip Morrison

Freedom Fighters trying to destroy German factory and heavy water transport: First agent inside plant: Einar Skinnarland The Gunnerside Team: ​ ​ Joachim Ronneberg The Grouse/Swallow Team: Knut Haukelid ​ Jens Anton Paulsson Fredrik Kayser Arne Kjelstrup Kasper Idland Knut Haugland Hans Storhaug Claus Helberg Birger Stromsheim

The Lake Tinnsio Team: “Bonzo” (alias Knut Haukelid) Rolf Sorlie (local resistance) Einar Skinnarland (base wireless operator) Gunnar Syverstad (plant lab assistant) Kjell Nielsen (plant transport manager)

Others in Bomb: ​ ​ Carl Eifler - U.S. Army operative Moe Berg -- U.S. Army operative Alexander Fekilsov - KGB Zalmud Franklin - KGB Semyon Semyonov -- KGB Peter Ivanov - KGB Tom Black -- Communist Richard Brennan - FBI Scott Miller - FBI Dorothy McKibben - Secretary Clarence Hickey - Communist; removed from Manhattan Project Sergei Kurnakov - journalist Henry Stimson - Secretary of War Yohko Kuwabara - victim of Hiroshima