United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission was an agency of the United States government, started after World War II by the United States Congress. It was made to help the development of atomic science and technology. This was because the control of atomic energy was transferred from the military to the people after president Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act in 1946.[1] Congress then declared that atomic energy should be used for peace, not nuclear war.
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This is an image of David E. Lilienthal, who chaired the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1950. This photo was probably taken about the time that Lilienthal was nominated for the post by President Harry S. Truman
This is an image of Gordon E. Dean, chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1950 to 1953. It appears at p. 43, col. 2, in the DOE publication, Origins of the Nevada Test Site (DOE/MA-0518), by Terrence R. Fehner and F. G. Gosling, published in 2000, and is credited to the Department of Energy.
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John McCone, 6th Director of Central Intelligence.
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James Schlesinger official DoD photo
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President Harry S. Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946
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David E. Lilienthal, who chaired the AEC from its creation until 1950
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Gordon Dean, who chaired the AEC from 1950 to 1953
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References
- ↑ Barton C. Hacker, Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947-1974 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 11–12
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