Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mini mis. Last week the case of Lilienthal and AEC became a matter for the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee's full attention. In the Senate's big caucus room, Chairman Brien McMahon, puffing on a cigar, ceremoniously took command...
...additional bother of that kind is de minimis,"-smiled the bald-headed chairman of the AEC. The newsreel men doused their floodliehts. Referring only occasionally to some notes, Lilienthal made his statement...
...letter to McMahon, he had said that if the AEC had failed, then no single fact could be "more disturbing to the peace of mind of the people." But certain tests of AEC's efficiency could be applied, among them: "what is the state of our atomic weapons," how big is the stockpile, how much progress has been made in new weapon design? The record, he had written, "is a proud one." Now, on the witness stand, he invited the committee to ask some 30 prominent scientists and industrialists what they thought of AEC. The joint committee itself...
...Trivial Items," It was an impressive performance. Iowa's Hickenlooper looked a little sheepish. He pulled a statement from his pocket and read it. It was not the activities of AEC's zealous and loyal helpers to which he objected but Lilienthal's administrative policies. He ended: "At this time I am not prepared to present my case in an orderly fashion. But I will in a few days...
...their light fixed on him now. As baffled as they were, and as unprepared as they were, they were still determined to know a lot more about the details of how Lilienthal had been running his atomic empire. The trick would be to strengthen what was weak in AEC without weakening all that was strong...