FOOTNOTES
Sect. t(a}l, Acomic Energy Act of 1946 (Public Law
585) 78th Cong. 1st sess.

12.

Hewlett and Duncan, Nuclear Navy, pp. 178-79, 23557; Dean Diary, June 14, 1962.

Corbin Allardice and Edward R. Trapnell, The Atomic
Energy Commission (New York: Praeger Publishers,
1974), pp. 31-32 (hereafter cited as Allardice and

13.

Hewlett, ‘The Advent of Nuclear Power’’, p. 12.

14.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States,
1953, Owight D. Eisenhower (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1960), pp. 813-22.

18.

For a discussion of Atoms for Peace as an instrument
of foreign policy, see Jack M. Holl, ‘Eisenhower's
Peaceful Atomic Diplomacy: Atoms for Peace in the
Public Interest'’ (Paper delivered before the
American Historical Association, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2330, 1977), p. 1 (hereafter cited as Holl, ‘Eisenhower's
Peaceful Diplomacy’’).

16.

“Message from the President of the United States,
“House Document, 83 Cong., 2 sess., no. 328 (Feb.
17, 1954); Richard G. Hewlett, “Industry and the

Trapnell, The AEC).

Dr. Richard G. Hewlett, former Chief Historian of the
AEC, believes that the most influential group in the

early years was not the Commission itself but its

General Advisory Committee consisting of such
famous scientists as J. Robert Oppenheimer, James
B. Conant, Enrico Fermi and Isador |. Rabi. Richard
G. Hewlett, “The Advent of Nuclear Power, 19451968’ (Paper delivered before the American Association for The Advancement of Science, Dallas, TX,
Dec. 28, 1968}, p. 4 (hereafter cited as Hewlett, ‘‘The
Advent of Nuclear Power’’}.

Atomic Energy Commission, 1947-1954" (Paper
delivered at a joint session of the Society for the

Richard G. Hewlett, ‘‘Nuclear Powerin the Public (n-

terest: The Atomic Energy Act of 1964’ (Paper

History of Technology and the Organization of

delivered before the American Historical Association,

American Historians, Chicago, iL, April 27, 1967), pp.

Dallas, TX, Dec. 1977), pp. 1-3.

Richard G. Hewlett, ‘The AEC in Retrospect’ (unpublished ms., Historian’s Office, Feb. 10, 1976), p.
12 (hereafter cited as Hewlett, ‘The AEC in
Retrospect'’).
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States:
Harry S. Truman 1950 (Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1965), p. 138. For a detailed presentation of the decision on the hydrogen bomb, see
Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic
Shield, 1947-1952, Vol. I! of A History of the United
States Atomic Energy Commission (University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1969), pp. 362409 (hereafter cited as Hewlett and Duncan, Atomic
Shield).

21-22.
17,

(Washington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 1955).

18.

19.

Hewlett and Duncan Atomic Shield, pp. 411, 424-30,
441; “The Eisenhower Imprint,’’ unpublished ms.,
Department of Energy Historian's Office, pp. 3-4; ‘A
History of the Expansion of AEC Production
Facilities,”” Report’by the General Manager, Aug. 16,
1963, pp. 13-20.

VW.

Proposal for Industrial

“A Report by United States Atomic Energy Commis-

Atomic Energy Commission July 1965 (Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1955), pp. 147-54;

Senate Committee on Armed Services, Civil Defense

Program, 84th Cong., 1st Sess., Feb. 22, 1955, p. 2;

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Health and

Safety Problerns Associated with Atomic Explosions,
April 15, 1965; AEC, Major Activities in The Atomic
Energy Programs, January-June 1956, p. 16.

21.

Willard F. Libby, ‘‘Radioactive Fallout and Radioactive Strontium,” Northwestern University, Evanston,
IL, Jan. 19, 1956; Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Press Release No. 80, April 18, 1957.

22.

AEC, Twenty-fifth Semi-Annual Report of the
Atomic Energy Commission, January 1959

Development of Atomic

Energy, enc. C.A. Thomasto S. Pike, June 20, 1950;

David Lilienthal, Speech before the Economic Club,

Detroit, Mi, Oct. 6, 1947; AEC Press Release 59, Oct.

6, 1947; Hewlett and Duncan, Atomic Shieid, pp.

495-98.

Robert A. Divine, Blowing on the Wind, the Nuclear
Test Ban Debate 1954-1960 (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1978), pp. 3-18; AEC, Sixteenth
Semiannual Report, July 1964 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1958), pp. 51-5; Richard G.
Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, ‘‘Nuclear Weapons: A
New Reality” (unpublished ms., Historian's Office,
1981), pp. 61-63.
sion on Effect of High-Yield Nuclear Explosions,”’ Appendix 7, Eighteenth Semiannual Report of the

Hewlett and Duncan, Atomic Shield, p. 432; Richard
G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Nuclear Navy 19461962 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974),
pp. 54-55 (hereafter cited as Hewlett and Duncan,
Nuclear Navy).

Atomic Shield, pp. 222-227, 432.

Holl, ‘Eisenhower's Peaceful Diplomacy” pp. 9-18;
AEC, Twenty-third Semiannual Report, January 1958

(Washington: GovernmentPrinting Office, 1958), pp.
189-221.

Hewlett and Duncan, Atomic Shield, pp. 534-35, 56364,

10.

Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Current Statement of the Atomic Energy Commission on the FiveYear Reactor Development Program, May 4, 1955

(Washington: Government Printing Office, 1960), pp.

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