Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until a year later, after the civilian Atomic Energy Commission had taken the plant over from the Army, did anyone notice that the material was missing. On April 30, AEC notified...
...Unknown Agents." The FBI questioned the two closely, decided that they had had no foreign or subversive connections. The material was returned to AEC, the affair was reported to the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on June 17. The boys were kept under surveillance while the Justice Department and AEC debated whether there was any way to hold a trial without revealing atomic secrets. Publicly, no one said a word...
...announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...
...moral to be drawn from the story as originally printed, and the one the Sun and other papers did draw, is that the Atomic Energy Commission is unfitted for the job with which it is entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody...
...first, though minor, tasks would be the hiring of a gardener. The lawns surrounding the gleaming white building, like some other AEC matters, had grown shaggy and ragged during the weeks of uncertainty...