Word: aec
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Clues from the Air. Much information about the Russian tests is already filtering into the AEC, but Seaborg and his colleagues will be picking up clues for weeks to come before they get the detailed answers as to what the Soviet Union actually tested and accomplished. Known is the fact that Russian tests at three different sites-northern and southern Novaya Zemlya and Semipalatinsk in the Soviet Arctic-have totaled more than 110 megatons of yield, bringing the total Russian test yield to date to about 160 megatons v. 125 megatons from known U.S. and British tests since...
...that the Russians have made important breakthroughs in nuclear technology, including the testing or development of an anti-missile missile that could weaken the effectiveness of the U.S.'s retaliatory power. But there is no actual evidence yet to indicate any such giant Russian strides. What worries the AEC more is that the Russian tests may have severely reduced the atomic lead that the U.S. now enjoys, thus strengthening the Soviet Union's military and political position...
Planned Parenthood. Although he is a registered Democrat, Seaborg has been politically passive, served both Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower as an adviser. In 1959 the AEC gave him the $50,000 Enrico Fermi Award-the highest honor the Government can bestow on an atomic scientist. Last January, four days before he took office as President, John Kennedy appointed Seaborg chairman of the AEC-the highest federal administrative post a U.S. scientist has ever attained...
Chicago asked for $1.6 million a year to run the lab; the AEC estimated $600,000 was sufficient; and each side agreed eventually on $1.2 million. The Times regarded the difference between $1.2 million and $600,000 as profit for the University of Chicago...
...hidden problem of indirect costs, which can drain a university's funds, were a prime concern of the recent Cheever Report on Harvard and Federal Aid. The reported change in policy by the AEC was just a false alarm, according to Wiggins...