Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AEC does not agree with the theory-advanced by a Navy witness in the Congressional hearings on the Navy's revolt against unification-that atom bombs are not so destructive. They are extremely destructive, said the AEC report. The report considered only the effects of bombs like the one exploded at 1,800 feet over Hiroshima. Better bombs have been built, but the old ones were effective enough to make the AEC's case...
Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac...
...more of his time, energy, health, and peace of mind to his country than the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. He left a luerative private practice in the early thirties to serve first on the Wisconsin Public Utilities Commission, then as Director of the TVA, and finally as AEC head. At no time has his salary approached a just renumeration for his services...
David Lilienthal's resignation is not happy for the country. It will be difficult to find any man who can come close to equalling his insight into the problems of the AEC. But David Lilienthal can at least resign knowing that his reputation is clean and his job well done...
After four months of heated charges, hot denials and many listless sessions, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week cleared the Atomic Energy Commission and Chairman David Lilienthal of "incredible mismanagement." In fact, the ten Democrats on the committee spent 45,000 words praising AEC for striking "a satisfactory balance between 'security by achievement' and 'security by concealment.' The project," added the majority, "has moved a long way from the bleak days of 1947 when our weapon stockpile position bordered upon complete inadequacy...