Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission Atomic Shield 1947 written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission Atomic shield 1947 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atomic Shield A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission AEC Volume II 1947 1952 Terrible Responsibility Call to Arms Nuclear Arsenal Quest for the Super Hydrogen Bomb written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atomic Shield written by Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of the highly regarded official history of the birth of the atomic age and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) dealing with the years from 1947 through 1952. Atomic Shield, the second volume in a historical series, begins in January, 1947, when the Commission assumed responsibility for the nation's atomic energy program; it ends with the detonation of the first thermonuclear device and the Presidential election in November, 1952. Thus it covers in a political sense most of the Truman Administration and in the international realm the chaotic years of the Marshall Plan, the Berlin blockade, and the Korean War. In 1947 the nation's atomic energy establishment amounted to little more than the remnants of the military organization and facilities which had produced the world's first atomic weapons. By the end of 1952 the Commission's domain included an arsenal of nuclear weapons, a refurbished and greatly enlarged complex of research and production facilities, and a dozen experimental or research reactors. CHAPTER 1 * TERRIBLE RESPONSIBILITY * Historical setting * CHAPTER 2 * UNCERTAIN MANDATE * CHAPTER 3 * FIRST VENTURE * Weapon research and production, early 1947 * CHAPTER 4 * PEACEFUL IMAGE * accelerators and basic research; Clinton crisis, December, 1947 * CHAPTER 5 * CALL TO ARMS * early plans for Sandstone tests; production at Hanford and Oak Ridge; response to growing crisis in Europe * CHAPTER 6 * NUCLEAR ARSENAL * raw materials procurement; progress at Los Alamos and Sandia, 1948; new weapon requirements * CHAPTER 7 * ATOMIC POWER: QUANDARY AND QUAGMIRE * aircraft and naval propulsion; Wilson's reactor plan; reactor safeguards; Hafstad and four-reactor program, 1948-1949 * CHAPTER 8 * RESEARCH: NEW APPROACHES TO A NEW AGE * high-energy physics, 1946-1948; discovery of transplutonium elements; radiation biology and studies in Japan; meson; bevatron and cosmotron; radioisotopes, cancer research, and studies of radiation effects * CHAPTER 9 * COOPERATION WITH BRITISH: UNTANGLING ALLIANCE * exchanging technical information * CHAPTER 10 * COOPERATION WITH BRITISH: ANXIETY AND TENSION * Cyril Smith affair and breakdown of cooperation; formulating a new policy, 1948-1949; search for Congressional support, 1949; negotiations with British, autumn, 1949; Fuchs and failure, 1950 * CHAPTER 11 * ART OF ADMINISTRATION * Hickenlooper investigations, summer, 1949 * CHAPTER 12 * DECISION OF DESTINY * Soviet detonation, August, 1949; detection and decision to announce, September, 1949; pressure for superweapon; Lilienthal's decision to resign; Joint Committee initiatives; Presidential decision, January 31, 1950 * CHAPTER 13 * TWILIGHT ZONE, FEBRUARY-JUNE, 1950 * decisions on weapons development; reactor development for defense; plans for producing nuclear materials; place of basic and independent research in national security; declining prospects for Super at Los Alamos * CHAPTER 14 * CHANGING PATTERNS OF ADMINISTRATION * Changing role of Commissioners, 1949-1950; search for a new chairman, 1950; labor relations, 1949- 1950; changing requirements in security to 1950; community policy, 1947-1950; Dean's appointment as chairman and Wilson's resignation; labor and security in Korean war * CHAPTER 15 * SCIENCE: SHIELD OF FREE WORLD? * Impact of Korean war on research and development, 1950; reactors for military; new goals for reactor development, 1951; research in shadow of war; advances in high-energy physics, chemistry, radiation biology, and genetics; reactors for propulsion, plutonium production, and power generation; Oppenheimer's retirement * CHAPTER 16 * QUEST FOR SUPER * difficulties in developing Super; Savannah River and Paducah sites; effects of Chinese intervention in Korea; Ulam, Teller; a break in civilian custody of weapons * CHAPTER 17 * FORGING ATOMIC SHIELD * demands for more production, construction at Hanford and Savannah River; debate on a second laboratory; production: "How much is enough?"
Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atomic Energy Development written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission The New World 1939 written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission written by R. G. Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission The New World 1939 written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atoms for Peace and War 1953 1961 written by Richard G. Hewlett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Download or read book Legislative History of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Public Law 703 83rd Congress written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation Into the United States Atomic Energy Project written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: pt.1: Investigates allegations of AEC operations and security program mismanagement; pt. 8: Focuses on AEC Hanford, Wash, facilities cost overruns; pt. 9: Investigates loss of uranium from AEC Chicago, Ill., facilities; pt. 10: Investigates AEC natural gas pipeline construction at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; pt. 12: Investigates AEC contract for construction of Hanford, Wash., High School.
Download or read book Report to the United States Atomic Energy Commission by the Industrial Advisory Group December 15 1948 written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Semiannual Report of the Atomic Energy Commission written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation Into the United States Atomic Energy Project written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: pt.1: Investigates allegations of AEC operations and security program mismanagement; pt. 8: Focuses on AEC Hanford, Wash, facilities cost overruns; pt. 9: Investigates loss of uranium from AEC Chicago, Ill., facilities; pt. 10: Investigates AEC natural gas pipeline construction at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; pt. 12: Investigates AEC contract for construction of Hanford, Wash., High School.
