Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress in 1946 to take over the Army's atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E. Lilienthal was appointed chairman; the Senate confirmed his appointment after a bitter and vindictive fight...
...most serious was the balancing of military security against the release of scientific information. Even after the release of the Smyth report, a publicly available how-to-do-it manual on the breeding and use of atomic energy--originally authorized by the Army, military officials in the atomic weapons program wanted the AEC to classify almost all atomic information. They also wanted to weed out all scientists not meeting rigorous security standards. At the same time, some very able men were quitting their jobs under the AEC because they found existing security gags in compatible with their own conceptions...
...conflict broke last summer when Iowa's Senator Hickenlooper accused Lilienthal of "incredible mismanagement" in handling the security program More than two months of Congressional sifting cleared Lilienthal, but a powerful Military Committee still looks over the AEC's shoulder, working to keep declassification of information as limited as possible...
Aptheker based his charges primarily on the basis of the content of Schlesinger's latest book, "The Vital Center," which suggest a common ground for political action by moderate conservatives and moderate liberals. Aptheker, called Schlesinger's position a program groomed to the needs of a rolling class seeking war and fascism...
...elaborating on the thesis that the University should concern itself with the loyalty oath, McCormick said, "the Union feels Harvard students are admitted according to faculty, not government, standards and the Navy program here should not be permitted to subvert these standards...