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Harmony was in the air as the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy met last week to hear AEC's new program to develop U.S. atomic power. After the long battles between Lewis
Strauss and Congress, there was hope for an era of good feeling under new AEC Chairman John A. McCone, who talked of a more vigorous program-just what the committee wanted...
Shortly after, California's Democratic Representative Chet Holifield tangled with McCone. Holifield had read a draft of AEC's plan two days earlier, and while McCone was testifying, he issued a press release criticizing the AEC's plan as "inadequate" and "pitifully small." When a copy of the release was handed to McCone while he was still on the stand, he grew red with anger, waved it in the air, cried: "I just don't know why I am here, Mr. Chairman. I find that Mr. Holifield had a press release all printed and written...
...Nine. The fact was that Chairman McCone, his funds cut back by the Bureau of the Budget, had presented a program that went little farther than last year's (TIME, Jan. 26). The Democrats charged that the AEC's plan, which calls for $249 million for atomic power projects in fiscal 1960-more than half of it for the military-actually represents a cut that would provide only $14.5 million in new money for civilian power reactors, v. $74 million authorized last year. AEC would drop six projects intended for 1959, including a 100,000-kw. heavy-water...
...evidence was nonetheless piling up that U.S. policymakers, along with the AEC, were beginning to pause for second sober thought. Most members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy have turned against the idea of stopping all nuclear tests until foolproof inspection can be guaranteed. The likelihood increased that the Senate would probably refuse to ratify a nuclear treaty without such safeguards. Thus at week's end the McCone plan of agreeing to stop the atmosphere tests only -while continuing to seek methods of detecting underground tests -seemed to make good sense. If the Russians were sincere...