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... figure in these espionage films, it’s dramatically subordinated to other, more pressing issues and agencies such as treason, homosexuality, and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) (in The Thief), Native Americans, national security, and the nuclear family (in The Atomic City...

...This chapter looks into the business of campaigning for or against nuclear development. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and its committees were at the epicenter of this debate. Here, the array of advice and potential pressure on the question of the Super as it existed in late 1949 offered...

..., with duty-holders also able to suggest new areas and concepts for inclusion. ³² Efforts were also made to align SyAPs with international guidance and good practice, in particular the Nuclear Security Series (NSS) of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which forms the basis...

... public fears and curiosity about atomic energy to new heights. Trying to satisfy that hunger, the chapter explores the development of documentary and training films about civil defense, and a radio documentary about nuclear technology. Alsop Joseph Alsop Stewart arms race fission fusion hydrogen...

... device, code-named Shrimp. It then shifts to narrate how Japanese scientists made and publicized measurements of the types and amounts of radioactive contamination from Castle Bravo, such as fallout that was detected on the boat and in fish. Under public pressure, the Atomic Energy Commission widened its...

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...International Atomic Energy Agency Weapons, chemical UN Charter Treaties, application International organizations, practice and procedure Fact-finding and inquiry 1. States Parties shall consult and cooperate, directly among themselves, or through the Organization or other appropriate...

...This chapter deals with Iraq’s struggle between the years 1991-2003, against the international supervision by the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that were trying to expose Saddam’s unconventional weapons. It describes their efforts to dismantle Iraq...

... of ongoing scientific inquiry and latent public anxiety about the health effects of low-level radiation. The major issue was the hazards of radioactive effluents released from nuclear power plants. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which the 1954 Atomic Energy Act had made responsible both for encouraging...

... increasingly important as the U.S. government and Atomic Energy Commission pursued “Atoms for Peace” as an international program after 1953. In addition, successes in mutation breeding promised to counterbalance widespread concern about the harmful effects of atomic radiation and nuclear fallout on plants...

... continuance depended on the global extension of that system. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and later the International Atomic Energy Agency cultivated interest in mutation breeding, especially that which relied on nuclear technologies, at events such as the International Conference on Peaceful Uses...

...This introductory chapter outlines how President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a more benign use for nuclear explosives, calling it Atoms for Peace. His proposal caught the attention of scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory...

...This chapter looks at some of the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Plowshare experiments. The first one, Project Chariot, was motivated by US Information Agency Director Arthur Larson’s suggestion to conduct a nuclear excavation blast in Alaska. Two were named Oilsands and Gnome, while the other...

.... His presence in Moscow made atomic scientists eager to get restricted information on anything he knew about atomic energy. There was a connection between Pontecorvo's presence in Russia and with the Soviets' attempts to learn more about how to find uranium. The analysis of developments in neutron well...

... visible key transformations in the material culture and research priorities of postwar biology and medicine. Atomic Energy Commission AEC advisory bodies on safety and Hiroshima atomic energy saving more lives than lost in isotopes stable Kohman Truman Nagasaki atomic energy saving more lives than...

...This chapter stresses the uneasy relationship between the U.S. government and industry in developing the civilian uses of atomic energy. The partially public, partially private nature of nuclear industry in the 1940s and early 1950s reflected the contradiction of government policy that promoted...