May 22, 1972
President Nixon, in the first visit of
aU. S. President to Moscow,
participated in a summit meeting and
signed the SALT I agreement.
February 6, 1973
Atomic Energy Comnissioner Dixy Lee Ray
designated chairman by President Nixon.
July 1974
Threshold Test Ban Treaty signed by the
United States and the Soviet Union.
October 11, 1974
President Ford signed the Fnergy
Reorganization Act, abolishing the
Atomic Energy Commission and
transferring its nuclear weapon program
to the Energy Research and Develorment
Administration.
January 19, 1975
Energy Research and Development
Administration activated and Robert C.
Seamans, Jr., named Administrator.
May 28, 1976
Treaty on Underground Nuclear
Explosions for Peaceful Purposes signed
by the United States and Soviet Union.
August 4, 1977
President Carter signed the Departmen
of Energy Act abolishing the Energy
Research and Development Administration
and Federal Energy Administration, and
transferred their functions to the new
Department of Energy. ‘The Department
began operation on October 1.
August 5, 1977
James R. Schlesinger nominated as first
November 27, 1978
President Jimmy Carter ordered the
Department of Health, Education, anc
Welfare to establish a program for
research on the health effects of low
Secretary of Energy.
level radiation exposure to cammuructies
in Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
February 22, 1979
Joseph Lyons published "Childhood
Lukemias Associated with Fallout =rmn
Nuclear Testing,” in The New Endler
Journal of Medicine.
April 19, 1979
House Cammittee on Interstate and
Foreign Cammerce held hearing or the
health effects of low-level raciaticn
at Salt Lake City, Utah.