Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people to get the idea that the AEC was gaining ground...
...Custodian of U.S. security, articulate exponent of the atomic age, David E. Lilienthal. Behind the curtain of AEC security measures, he is doing a job of greater importance and consequence than anyone anywhere in 1947. Applications of atomic energy in industry and medicine are more enduring contributions to progress in this or any year than forensic effort...
...Atlantic City, addressing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, AEC Chairman David Lilienthal also took note of the fifth atomic year. "If this country really means business," he said, the $2½ billion investment in atomic development would have to be doubled within the next few years. The U.S. would also have to get over its bugaboo about secrecy. Said Lilienthal...
...Safety. This was not the clearcut ruling that Physicist Moon wanted and it was not the clarification that many an other U.S. scientist had hoped for. Nuclear physics includes a bewildering mass of facts, figures and principles. Some are "classified" and known only (the AEC hopes) to scientists in its confidence...
...Moon and his fellow physicists are still hoping that the AEC (or Congress) will eventually tell them where they stand. Until they get the word they can stand safely only in classes in U.S. schools, before classes of U.S. citizens, teach only what the Atomic Energy Commission marks unclassified...