Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterful summary of the Oppenheimer case by TIME leaves this question unanswered: What should be done with this brilliant scientist if the AEC concurs in the decision by its special board? For the fact remains that Dr. Oppenheimer is a walking repository of highly classified security information. Should we put him in a file marked "extra special top secret?" Or shall we place his brain in a box . . . and surround it by FBI guards night...
Basically, Oppenheimer's case was what he had outlined in his earlier, eloquent statement to the AEC (TIME, June 14). He had been a "fellow traveler," an active Communist fronter from late 1936 until around 1942, but all that was behind him. He had been a loyal citizen, working hard for his Government ever since he went to work on the atomic bomb in 1942. To support their case, Oppenheimer's lawyers had called in an impressive list of character witnesses. Notable on the list were men who had worked above Oppenheimer, including some who had a measure...
...onetime (1931-38) Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, Lawyer Robb, 46, was hired by the AEC in February to handle the Oppenheimer case. A Yaleman ('28), Robb is associated with the Washington law firm of Bingham, Collins, Porter and Kistler, is a vice president of the District of Columbia Bar Association...
...Better Summary." In his defense against the charge that he delayed the development of the hydrogen bomb, Oppenheimer was also a bad witness for himself. In the past he had maintained that he, as chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC, had not opposed the hydrogen bomb. What he was against, he insisted, was a "crash program" to build the bomb in a hurry, with very high priorities which he felt might inter fere with A-bomb production. But he ran into difficulty as Security Board Counsel Robb cross-examined...
...take over power development on Alabama's Coosa River, once ticketed for a public-power project. In the second, President Eisenhower directed the Atomic Energy Commission to buy its additional power in the South from private sources, and ruled against expansion of the Tennessee Valley Authority to meet AEC's added power demands...