Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
That was the essence of AEC's second biennial report last week. Besides staking out a new atomic testing ground somewhere in the Pacific (see The Nation), the commission had started a tremendous new construction program in the bomb works of Hanford. It was the beginning of a second major effort in the field of atomic weapons, an effort as great as the stupendous wartime...
...alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners of AEC...
That there are other ranges ahead was of no immediate concern to the members of AEC last week. Their terms will be over in August, 1948. After that it will be up to the President and the Senate whether they continue. Other men may have to scale the next range...
...control the impact of the revolution would be the second great challenge for the U.S. But meanwhile AEC's first job was to make bigger & better atomic bombs...