Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Glenn Seaborg, are not making enough effort to develop it-because they think it cannot or should not be done. Responsible officials in many branches of the Government are quick to respond with categorical denials. Admiral John T. Hayward, head of Navy research and development, says that the AEC's labs are doing all they can, and doing it well. Senators on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy agree. All authorities insist that while other novel nuclear weapons may be ripe for testing, the fabled N-bomb is not. Some think it will not be ready for nearly...
Glenn T. Seaborg. Nobel Prizewinning chemist; chairman AEC Sc.D...
Died. Thomas Edward Murray, 69, outspoken Democratic member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1950-57), who upheld the AEC's 4-1 "no confidence" vote against Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1954, fought for Government development of atomic power plants, production of smaller nuclear weapons, cessation of hydrogen bomb tests, but last year urged the U.S. to resume underground tests to create a relatively "clean" neutron bomb as a "third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray...
...little-known prizes with large cash perquisites went to four U.S. scientists last week for their work in practical atomics. To Jesse Charles Johnson, director of the Atomic Energy Commission's raw materials division, went the Ambrose Monell Medal and a whopping $25,000 for directing the AEC's extraordinarily successful uranium prospecting and extraction program. Another $25,000, and congratulations from President Kennedy, went to a trio of Army civilian engineers for developing a nuclear explosive that has yet to be tested as a weapon. Robert M. Schwartz got $15,000 from the Secretary of the Army...
...other side of the Atlantic, Admirals Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strauss of the AEC teamed up with John Foster Dulles to keep Eisenhower's plans mired in day-to-day trivialities. Dulles never expected results from negotiations, and thought of them simply as opportunities for propaganda. He continually undercut Harold Stassen's authority when Stassen showed signs of making progress in the London negotiations of 1957, forcing him to check and recheck with the department on the smallest developments. Stassen charged later that Dulles deliberately wrecked the conference...