Word: aechairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They Were Sure. Events moved swiftly. There began a painstaking matching of the scientific evidence with intelligence reports. AEChairman David Lilienthal was summoned from Martha's Vineyard, where he was vacationing, for hurried briefing. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was called in. Some time last week the scientists reported to the President: they were sure that Russia had brought off an atomic explosion...
...atomic arsenal. This week the White House gave out a sketchy, cautious report by the Atomic Energy Commission on its tests last month at the Marshall Islands proving grounds (TIME, April 26). Not one but three atomic weapons-"of improved design"-were proved "successful in all respects." AEChairman David Lilienthal said the tests were "a milestone in atomic development...