Word: aec
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...theory became a tool to analyze the unthinkable--global nuclear war--and led to the doctrine of "mutually assured destruction," which would shape U.S. strategy for the next two decades. Von Neumann also became an icon of the cold war. Disabled with pancreatic cancer, he stoically continued to attend AEC meetings until his death in 1957. The wheelchair-bound scientist with the Hungarian accent who mathematically analyzed doomsday is said to have been a model for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove...
...experience both as a hematologist--who while doing routine clinical work often administers radioactive isotopes to patients for diagnostic purposes--and as a biochemist, who has been using radioactive tracers for in vitro experiments since 1950 when I began as a young investigator in the regional Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) laboratory at the new UCLA Medical School...
People were filled with fear--of nuclear war, of aggressive Communism, of spies, of enemy hordes in Korea, of litigation (there are incredible stories about how Warren and others in the AEC kept secrets in part for this reason), and of the raging politics of McCarthyism...
According to Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass). the AEC was injecting plutonium in unwitting subjects until 1947, and sanctioned the Massachusetts tests...
...AEC claim in 1950 that it had never sponsored human experimental research was, quite simply, a lie," Markey said...