Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for agreement at the moment is a pact to halt nuclear tests. Whether such action be taken in the expanded United Nations Disarmament Commission, at a foreign ministers' meeting, or at the summit, it would represent the best antidote to the present tension. Although AEC Chairman Strauss has kept up a constant campaign in favor of the tests, his stand can be overruled and he may well be out of a job in June. It will be a more difficult job to unfreeze John Foster Dulles, but even he cannot sit tight forever in a world that is constantly...
...Sputniks was a demand for a re-examination of the decade's most sensational security-risk case: the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision revoking the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Los Alamos A-bomb laboratory and later chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee. A three-man special board headed by the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray (now Defense Mobilization Director) concluded in 1954 that Oppenheimer was a loyal citizen, but that past "disregard for the requirements of the security system" made him a security...
...research chief last year in protest against lagging missile development, suggested a new look at the Oppenheimer case "in light of today's problems." Senate Democrats took up Gardner's theme. Declared Washington's Senator Henry M. ("Scoop") Jackson: it would be "entirely proper for the AEC to arrange a rehearing and a reconsideration in light of present circumstances." Chorused Florida's George Smathers: "We must do everything we can to enlist all the brainpower on our side." Said New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy...
...most unexpected comment came from Thomas E. Murray, former AECommissioner and now a consultant to Capitol Hill's Atomic Energy Committee. Back in 1954. when the AEC upheld the Gray board's findings by a vote of four to one, Murray not only voted with the majority but added an extra sting of his own by declaring that Oppenheimer's disregard for the security system made him, in a special sense, "disloyal." Last week Murray said that he saw "no objection" to a rehearing and "would not be at all displeased" if Robert Oppenheimer's security...
...AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss last week tried to head off mounting congressional criticism on the slowness of U.S. reactor development. Dedicating the AEC's $17 million experimental sodium reactor in the Santa Susana Mountains near Los Angeles, which will supply 6,500 kw. of electricity to the Southern California Edison Co., Strauss indicated that more Government money would now go into such advanced plants. Present plans already call for a $1 billion investment by the mid-1960s "in some 18 or 20 nuclear power plants serving homes and industries across our nation...