Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite ability and eloquence, Democratic Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray's frequent personality and policy clashes with AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss made his departure from office readily predictable (TIME, May 6). Last week President Eisenhower made official his decision not to reappoint Murray, whose term expires next week. Instead, in an obvious effort to head off Democratic congressional criticism, he nominated onetime (1949-53) Truman Assistant Navy Secretary John F. Floberg, 41, a political independent who has been practicing law in Washington since leaving government. Jack Floberg has one sound credential for AEC service: he played an active...
...looks hush-hush until the big unveiling Aug. 27, the ad agency hired Hollywood's Cascade Pictures, which makes special movies for the Atomic Energy Commission and the guided-missile program. Said a studio spokesman: "We're using all the same precautions that we take for AEC films." Five shrouded Edsels were whisked across the country by van from Mahwah, NJ. and unloaded one dark night at the studio. They were locked on a sound stage. Armed security guards began patrolling the area around the clock, inspecting the identification badges of all who enter. Actors were interviewed...
Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of AEC...
Both physicists and biologists emphasize that too little is known to support hard-and-fast judgments. Dr. Harold A. Thomas Jr., Harvard professor of civil and sanitary engineering, who has worked for eight years with the AEC on safe disposal of radioactive wastes, says the field is full of mysteries and surprises. "We are concerned about strontium 90," he says, "but there are many other [fallout] materials whose effects are almost totally unknown." He suggests being more careful...
...Libby is well aware of the adverse opinion swirling around him. He thinks the AEC does not get proper credit for the effort it is making to find out more about the effects of fallout on humans. The AEC has also markedly reduced the radioactive poisons released by its megaton bomb tests, and it promises to make future tests even "cleaner...