Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army's Lieut. General James M. Gavin recently alarmed all Europe by predicting that an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union might kill several hundred million people, as the fallout drifted capriciously with the wind, falling on friend and foe alike. If the AEC has achieved a "large nuclear weapon" with greatly reduced fallout, it will enable atomic strategists to lay down their pattern of death with greater precision, make the H-bomb a far more useful military weapon. A bomb exploded, for instance, over a Polish air base would be less likely to depopulate Berlin...
...Passed, by a 49-(46 Democrat, 3 Republican) to-40 (all Republican) vote and sent to the House an Administration-opposed bill "authorizing and directing" the Atomic Energy Commission to spend $400 million to speed commercial atom-power development. The Administration's position: the AEC is already doing all it should rightly...
...Dixon-Yates contract that would have allowed private utilities to build a $107 million steam plant to service the Memphis, Tenn. area (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955). They claimed that the deal bypassed and weakened the TVA, thus focused the argument on public v. private power. Further, they said, the AEC had no statutory authority to make the contract. The Democrats' best ammunition came late in the debate when Senate investigators learned that one Adolphe H. Wenzell had acted as consultant to the Budget Bureau on the Dixon-Yates contract while at the same time advising the First Boston Corp...
...doing, Brownell had to repudiate virtually everything the Administration had claimed during the earlier spirited defense of the contract. The Justice Department's brief maintained that the AEC indeed had no authority to make the contract, and furthermore, that the Wenzell conflict of interest certainly invalidated the whole deal...
URANIUM ORE PRODUCTION in the U.S. is up to nearly 3,000,000 tons annually (v. 70,000 tons in 1948), thus making U.S. the free world's leading producer, says AEC Raw Materials Director Jesse C. Johnson. U.S. ore output will eventually climb to 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 tons annually...