Word: aec
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Stassen's words, which everyone accepted, and the AEC's plan to develop bigger & better weapons, which everybody accepted too, was the kind of dilemma that ringed the U.S. these days, from every direction. The dilemma could only be solved by a paradox, by a miracle, by finding the moral equivalent of the atomic bomb...
That was the essence of AEC's second biennial report last week. Besides staking out a new atomic testing ground somewhere in the Pacific (see The Nation), the commission had started a tremendous new construction program in the bomb works of Hanford. It was the beginning of a second major effort in the field of atomic weapons, an effort as great as the stupendous wartime...
...until a year later, after the civilian Atomic Energy Commission had taken the plant over from the Army, did anyone notice that the material was missing. On April 30, AEC notified...
...Unknown Agents." The FBI questioned the two closely, decided that they had had no foreign or subversive connections. The material was returned to AEC, the affair was reported to the Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee on June 17. The boys were kept under surveillance while the Justice Department and AEC debated whether there was any way to hold a trial without revealing atomic secrets. Publicly, no one said a word...
...announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...