Word: aec
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Safety. This was not the clearcut ruling that Physicist Moon wanted and it was not the clarification that many an other U.S. scientist had hoped for. Nuclear physics includes a bewildering mass of facts, figures and principles. Some are "classified" and known only (the AEC hopes) to scientists in its confidence...
...Moon and his fellow physicists are still hoping that the AEC (or Congress) will eventually tell them where they stand. Until they get the word they can stand safely only in classes in U.S. schools, before classes of U.S. citizens, teach only what the Atomic Energy Commission marks unclassified...
...alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners of AEC...
That there are other ranges ahead was of no immediate concern to the members of AEC last week. Their terms will be over in August, 1948. After that it will be up to the President and the Senate whether they continue. Other men may have to scale the next range...
...control the impact of the revolution would be the second great challenge for the U.S. But meanwhile AEC's first job was to make bigger & better atomic bombs...