Word: aechairman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman, Strauss worsened his standing with liberals by arguing for continuation of nuclear tests until the Russians agreed to 1) a halt in nuclear-arms production and 2) a villainproof inspection system. This battle he half lost when the President agreed to a year's uninspected trial suspension provided that...
Wounded by the barbs of controversy, sensitive Lewis Strauss vowed never to accept another Government post once he stepped down as AEChairman. Big reasons why he took on the Commerce job despite that vow: 1) a conviction that much can be done on the international economic front to help the West win the cold war and 2) a desire to overcome his reputation as a man of war and big bombs -a reputation that devoutly religious Lewis Strauss thoroughly detests...
Before making up its mind on the third-reactor issue, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held extensive closed-door hearings. A special panel of four outside experts, including onetime AEChairman Gordon Dean, unanimously concluded that "present and planned output of reactor products is substantially inadequate to meet the minimum future needs of the armed services," and a parade of witnesses agreed...
...allies more atomic-weapons information, more nuclear material. But to many U.S. businessmen, a stronger atomic defense is only one side of the coin. They want some equally drastic changes in the U.S. atomic-energy program to develop commercial power for use throughout the power-hungry world. While AEChairman Lewis L. Strauss maintains that the commercial program is clipping right along, experts in Congress and industry disagree; they insist that commercial nuclear power must be sped up, or else the U.S. will fall far behind other nations...
There is little doubt among nuclear experts that the U.S. must push ahead much faster than AEChairman Strauss is willing to go. Last week, AEC was trying to work out a compromise plan to supply more funds to private industry for research and development. The need is bigger than that. One comprehensive plan was laid out recently by Willis Gale, chairman of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., which will operate the big Dresden power station in 1960. Chairman Gale dismisses the public- v. private-power argument by prefacing his plan with the suggestion that Government aid go both...