Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reuther called Mitchell for a conference; they met at the Labor Department. Until 2 a.m. Mitchell listened to the union's aims and grievances (poor housing and community facilities, bad relations with K-25's operator, Union Carbide & Carbon). Next day he checked the AEC and company officials, who rejected the terms but promised to take up the grievances...
...known Joseph Weinberg to be a member of the Communist Party until that fact became public knowledge. Yet on Sept. 12, 1943, Dr. Oppenheimer told Colonel Lansdale that Weinberg was a Communist Party member." Continued the commissioners: "The work of military intelligence, the FBI, and the AEC-all, at one time or another, have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions and misrepresentations. Dr. Oppenheimer's persistent and willful disregard for the obligations of security is evidenced by his obstruction of inquiries by security officials . . . Under oath he now admits that his refusal to name the individual [Chevalier] impeded...
...majority finding confirmed the judgment of the special board headed by onetime Army Secretary Gordon Gray. But there were two important differences. Where the Gray board had commended Oppenheimer's discretion with secret data, the AEC majority was significantly silent. Where the Gray board criticized Oppenheimer's opposition to H-bomb development, the commissioners held that the physicist's policy opinions are not relevant to his security status...
Thus, the AEC acted to silence the criticism that Oppenheimer had been punished because he was not "enthusiastic" about the H-bomb. Like the Gray board, the AEC gave great weight to Dr. Oppenheimer's untruthfulness about security matters, e.g., his admitted lies about the approach made to him by Communist-tainted Haakon Chevalier, who told him that a mutual acquaintance had a way of getting information to the Communists...
...next day, President Eisenhower said that if Oppenheimer wanted to appeal to the White House, he would be heard. An appeal, commented Oppenheimer, "had not occurred to me until the President suggested it." But whether or not Oppenheimer appeals, there is little likelihood that the AEC decision will be overruled. The case is settled, although the arguments about...