Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb with a jacket of natural-state uranium that gave it greater power at less cost?" The President replied that he did not think he should attempt to answer the question (and the White House clipped both question and reply out of the television coverage), passed the matter to AEC Chairman Strauss, who refused to comment. But the whole exchange whetted new curiosity about the U-bomb, the latest addition to the world's popular atomic vocabulary...
...Voted 8 to 4 in the Senate Government Operations Committee to approve the nomination of former Atomic Energy Commissioner Joseph E. Campbell as U.S. Comptroller General. Democratic opposition to Campbell stemmed mostly from the fact that while on AEC he voted in favor of the Dixon-Yates contract...
URANIUM ORE is pouring out of the West at such a clip that AEC buying cannot keep up. No sooner had AEC begun operation of a new ore-buying station at Riverton, Wyo. last week than it had to announce plans for two more new stations, one at Greenriver, Utah and the other at Cutter, Ariz...
Duty & Faith. Nowhere in the article does Teller withdraw or modify his testimony about Oppenheimer before the AEC's security board when he said: "I would feel personally more secure if public matters would rest in other hands" (than Oppenheimer...
Radiation Spotters. The National Bureau of Standards has worked out for the Atomic Energy Commission a handy system for following radioactive clouds as they drift cross-country. Throughout a large region around AEC's Nevada testing ground are radiation detectors perched on poles. Each detector has a telephone number, so AEC can dial it and ask it how much radiation it feels in its vicinity. The detector answers with an audible tone whose pitch (frequency) indicates the intensity of radiation. By calling many detectors, AEC can tell just where its clouds are drifting...