Word: aec
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...Andrei Gromyko, the deadpan diplomat, did not vote against this project, but he scorned it. Since Russia's current line is to do nothing and to blame the U.S. for the fact that nothing is done, Gromyko did not want people to get the idea that the AEC was gaining ground...
While the AEC stood still, military staffs and armchair strategists toyed (that seemed to be the word) with the possibilities of the atom. One current and quite plausible notion of how to keep the Red Army from seizing Europe: drop intensely poisonous atomic dust to form a barrier between the U.S.S.R. and the land to the west of it. Such a cordon might last for years; it would not, however, prevent the Russians from developing bacteriological weapons, possibly more deadly than the atom (see MEDICINE), which could be sent across the barrier...
...AEC is supposed to work out control of germ warfare, too. It will get around to that when & if the Russians ever agree to atomic control...
...Custodian of U.S. security, articulate exponent of the atomic age, David E. Lilienthal. Behind the curtain of AEC security measures, he is doing a job of greater importance and consequence than anyone anywhere in 1947. Applications of atomic energy in industry and medicine are more enduring contributions to progress in this or any year than forensic effort...
...Atlantic City, addressing the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, AEC Chairman David Lilienthal also took note of the fifth atomic year. "If this country really means business," he said, the $2½ billion investment in atomic development would have to be doubled within the next few years. The U.S. would also have to get over its bugaboo about secrecy. Said Lilienthal...