Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first press conference what he had long argued in private (TIME. Sept. 1)-that stopping U.S. tests "would delay and probably prevent'' development of low-radioactivity ("clean") weapons essential for U.S. defense, e.g., antimissile missiles. In its last test at Nevada Proving Grounds, before the stoppage, the AEC successfully set off a Hiroshima-sized underground shot ( 20 kilotons) that spouted a geyser of dirt but proved beyond doubt that the Russians could make important underground tests without leaving a scintilla of telltale fallout-thus leaving detection to highly fallible, faraway seismographs...
...those who though they were well rid of Strauss when he resigned as AEC head in June, his latest promotion comes as an unpleasant shock. There is no reason to honor the man whose treatment of Oppenheimer was not exactly gallant, and who has clouded the facts about atmospheric pollution and nuclear test explosions. In giving him this new position, President Eisenhower has done the country a considerable disservice, one which only the Senate can remedy...
...their own problems. Jim Farley and state commerce commissioner Edward Dickinson were eliminated early. Carmine DeSapio, boss of Tammany Hall, supported New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan, while Harriman and Mayor Wagner held out for a "more liberal" man, either former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter or former AEC Commissioner Thomas Murray. In the ensuing power struggle, DeSapio won, with the aid of Buffalo Democratic leader Peter Crotty; Crotty was promptly rewarded with the nomination for Attorney General...
Designating Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, onetime (1953-57) U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce and AEC Chairman John A. McCone to represent the U.S. at the funeral services in St. Peter's, Presbyterian Eisenhower accepted an invitation to attend a Requiem Mass for the Pontiff this week at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington...
Rods In. War's end brought Scientist Lawrence a new role as an elder science statesman. He advised the Government on atomic energy, served on numerous missions, received a long string of honors. Lawrence was one of the U.S. scientists who backed the AEC view that fallout from nuclear-weapon testing is not critically dangerous. Last year he backed continued U.S. nuclear testing in a report to President Eisenhower that H-bombs can be made 96% "cleaner." The Radiation Laboratory flourished under his direction, built a bevatron for advanced particle research. Lawrence became chiefly an organizer, a humorous, vigorous...