Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regulation of reactors began under the Atomic Energy Commission, set up in 1946 shortly after the first atomic bomb fell on Japan. The AEC had the job of both promoting and safeguarding the development of atomic power. In 1974 President Gerald Ford signed a bill splitting the AEC into two agencies with separate functions: the Energy Research and Development Administration, which encourages the growth of nuclear power, and the NRC, which is concerned with safety...
...nicest play of the night. First grabbed an errant Eagle shot and quickly hit a streaking Dave Wigglesworth with a bomb over the middle that would have made Steve Grogan envious. Wigglesworth quickly shuffled it off to a waiting Mike Faught who whizzed it by a blinking Colombo into the goal for the fourteenth in a seemingly endless series of Harvard tallies...
...blizzard of affidavits from atomic experts and Cabinet Secretaries Cyrus Vance (State), Harold Brown (Defense) and James Schlesinger (Energy)-that the article would irreparably damage the security interests of the U.S. While conceding the story probably did not "provide a 'do-it-yourself' guide for the hydrogen bomb," Warren found that it contained vital concepts restricted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. (Significantly, the Government could invoke no such statutory authority when it tried unsuccessfully to block publication of the Pentagon papers in 1971.) "The article could possibly provide sufficient information to allow a medium-sized nation...
Morland, 36, a longtime nuclear opponent, was determined to make precisely that point from the start. As he told TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "I think the H-bomb secret is a political secret, not a technical secret. I wanted to explain the fact that there is no secret. But simply to say there is no secret and not go any further carries less impact than actually demonstrating the fact...
...Pendulum does not create a soothing rhythm in the mind; it sounds with the terrible urgency of a time bomb. The explosion is near, says Whiteside, the message is clear. The U.S. has already seen what dioxin has done to Viet Nam. There is no earthly reason for Americans to keep bringing the war home...