Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atomic energy," many observers consider its presentation to Oppenheimer an attempt by the Kennedy administration to clear the name of the nuclear physicist who was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the wartime Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was declared a security risk by the AEC...
...AEC has claimed reportedly that weapons detonated by the United States have gone undetected, and variably the AEC claims were proved false by seismological stations thousands of miles from the test sites. The Rand Corporation held that if a weapon were detonated in a large cavern the blast might escape detection, but this theory has also been disproven. In the face of new detection advances, Arthur E. Dean, head the United States delegation to the Geneva talks, stated last July that "it might become possible to dispense with international [on site] control stations." The Kennedy administration quickly declared that Dean...
President Pusey said that the contract with the AEC is one of the most complicated Harvard has yet negotiated with the government, but stressed that it is not the first over which the University has clashed with Washington...
University officials have indicated that Harvard probably would have refused to sign the CEA contract too, if some of the more objectionable provisions had not been removed. Such action would have left the AEC with an $11-million electron accelerator and no one to operate...
Ford indicated yesterday that all limitations on what scientists working at the CEA may publish will be removed from the final contract. The AEC had originally demanded that no technical information be released to Soviet bloc nations unless a Soviet scientist agreed in advance to release equally valuable information to the United States...