Dec 18, 2009

Salem on History | Atomic Energy Act

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Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
Categories: Government and Politics, Science, Environmental Issues
Subcategories: Laws, Acts, Legislation, Nuclear Weapons, Power, Radiation, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
Curriculum: American History 1951-present
Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
Date: August 30, 1954

Article abstract: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law a bill designed to promote the peacetime uses of nuclear energy.

Summary of Event

The United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946 provided for the establishment of a civilian group, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), whose specified tasks included not only stewardship of all fissionable materials but also the exercise of broad controls over every aspect, military as well as civilian, of atomic energy development in the United States. As custodian and delegated promoter of the peaceful atom,...

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Salem on History | Atomic Energy Act

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