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Atoms for peace and war, 1953-1961: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission

Hewlett, Richard G.

Year: 1989.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. A Secret Mission

2. The Eisenhower Imprint

3. The President and the Bomb

4. The Oppenheimer Case

5. The Political Arena

6. Nuclear Weapons: A New Reality

7. Nuclear Power for the Marketplace

8. Atoms for Peace: Building American Policy

9. Pursuit of the Peaceful Atom

10. the Seeds of Anxiety

11. Safeguards, EURATOM, and the International Agency

12. Nuclear Issues: A Time for Decision

13. Nuclear Issues: The Presidential Campaign of 1956

14. In Search of a Nuclear Test Ban

15. Politics of the Peaceful Atom

16. EURATOM and the International Agency, 1957-1958

17. Toward a Nuclear Test Moratorium

18. A New Approach to Nuclear Power

19. Science for War and Peace

20. The Test Ban: A Fading Hope

21. The Great Debate

Appendix 1: Personnel

Appendix 2: AEC Ten-Year Summary of Financial Data

Appendix 3: AEC Ten-Year Summary of Employment

Appendix 4: Announced U.S. Nuclear Tests, 1953-1958

Appendix 5: Procurement of Uranium Concentrates (U3O8)

Appendix 6: Agreements for Cooperation in the Civil and Military Uses of Atomic Energy

Appendix 7: AEC Operations Offices

Appendix 8: AEC Organization Charts, May 1953-September 1958

Appendix 9: Eight Basic Reactor Systems Being Developed

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Essay on Sources by Roger M. Anders

Index

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Title:

Atoms for peace and war, 1953-1961 : Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl ; with a foreword by Richard S. Kirkendall and an essay on sources by Roger M. Anders.

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Hewlett, Richard G

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Subject Headings:

• Eisenhower, Dwight D. -- (Dwight David), -- 1890-1969
• U.S. Atomic Energy Commission -- History
• Nuclear energy -- United States -- History
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961

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