Word: aec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When President Johnson offered Mrs. Bunting the job with AEC last March, she accepted on the condition that she would remain for only a year. But since she left for Washington, rumors that she would be staying there "indefinitely" have been circulating at the College...
Overboard on Security. President Truman appointed Lilienthal head of the newly created AEC in 1946. From then on Lilienthal's diary entries become less exuberant; he had fewer triumphs and many more frustrations. After a brutal fight for Senate confirmation, thanks to McKellar's opposition, Lilienthal had great hopes of creating peaceful uses for atomic energy, but he immediately bogged down in security questions in a Washington that was nervous about atomic secrecy. Lilienthal had to take atomic-production figures to Truman on tiny slips of paper with garbled figures that only he could read, and even then...
...Very Hopeful. Though Truman staunchly backed him up in his battles with Congress, Lilienthal decided to resign in 1950. His last important act in office was to oppose the crash program to build the hydrogen bomb. Along with most of the members of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, including Robert Oppenheimer, James Conant, Lee DuBridge and Enrico Fermi, Lilienthal objected to the bomb because he felt that the U.S. was relying too heavily on nuclear weapons and massive retaliation. He was also hopeful (but not very) that some agreement could be made with Russia not to build...
...bomb's proponents-AEC Commissioner Lewis Strauss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Senator Brien MacMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy-carried the day with Truman, and the possibility of falling behind in the arms race was narrowly averted. In spite of his stand on the H-bomb, Lilienthal had no use for appeasement or unilateral disarmament. In answer to one proposal to surrender rather than use the bomb, Lilienthal commented: "It isn't important how long one lives; what is important is that while he lives, he lives...
...Bunting has not given up being an educator to work for the AEC. Through "informal contacts" she is often asked about problems involving federal educational programs, and she has been asked to work with a new inter-departmental committee on educational planning...