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Fig. 3
Enewetak Atoll nuclear tests with name, year of detonation, a: d approximate locations.
expanding knowledge of the environmental setting in which
the tests were being conducted provided the basis for
discussions which led to the establishment of the EMBL.
information had been lost to foreign powers in the immediate postwar period, and the pace of atomic weapons
ESTABLISHMENT OF EMBL
university-associated research laboratory. with its traditions
of academic freedom and open publication of research
% necessity, the nuclear testing program of the 1940s
1950s was conducted in a climate of national urgency
=id classification security Important scientific and strategic
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research and development. had become a vital indicator of
political power. In this environment, the establishment of a
results, was nothing less than remarkable. It reflected the
enlightened scientific chmate of the AEC and the AEC's
concern regarding the long-term consequences of applica-