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.

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