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...transition from military to civilian control. Production and morale were up; personnel turnover had been reduced; scientific research had taken big strides (see SCIENCE). But with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee itself. Any changes that had to be made would come more smoothly under a less controversial AEC chairman...
...strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying to guess how the new bomb would influence Stalin's thinking and plans. Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon called AEC officials to closed sessions of his Joint Atomic Energy Committee and talked vaguely of "more bucks" for the nation's atomic program...
Giant Mechanism. The Cabinet meeting, which got the news from President Truman just before it was handed to the newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...
...luncheon hour; only a dozen Senators lolled at their seats as Connecticut's Brien McMahon spoke. "The day will come," he said, "when the Soviet Union will achieve atomic weapons. When that day will be, no man knows. But that it will come is as certain as that I stand on the floor of the Senate today." McMahon was reciting the arguments for the Administration's $1,314,010,000 military-aid program...
...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...