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III Atomic Energy in a Postwar World 71
20. Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman, September 11, 1945 75
21. The McMahon Bill, December 20, 1945 (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) 79
22. The Baruch Plan 92
23. "What Is the Atom's Industrial Future?", March 8, 1947 97
24. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" Address to the
United Nations General Assembly, December 8, 1953 		104
25. Excerpts from President Eisenhower's Press Conference, March 31,
1954 		112
IV The Hydrogen Bomb 114
26. "Political Implications of Detonation of Atomic Bomb by the
U.S.S.R.," Department of State, Policy Planning Staff PPS/58,
August 16, 1949 		115
27. Statement by the President on Announcing the First Atomic
Explosion in the USSR, September 23, 1949 		116
28. USAEC General Advisory Committee Minutes, October 28-30,
1949 		117
29. USAEC General Advisory Committee Report on the "Super,"
October 30, 1949 		120
30. Lewis Strauss to Harry S. Truman, November 25, 1949 128
31. Statement by the President on the Hydrogen Bomb, January 31, 1950 131
32. Hans Bethe, Comments on the History of the H-bomb, 1954 132
V The Oppenheimer Case 141
33. K. D. Nichols, General Manager, AEC, to J. R. Oppenheimer,
December 23, 1953 		144
34. J. R. Oppenheimer to K. D. Nichols, March 4, 1954 147
35. Testimony in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer 153
36. Findings on the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer: K. D. Nichols to
the USAEC, June 12, 1954 		161
37. Arthur Holly Compton to Gordon Gray, April 21, 1954, "Evidence
Regarding Loyalty of Robert Oppenheimer" 		172
VI Nuclear Testing and the Test Ban 176
38. Announced Nuclear Tests, 1945-52 179
39. Reported Nuclear Test Explosions 1945-68 181
40."Civil Defence Faces New Perils," Ralph E. Lapp, 1954 183
41. Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1376, May 21, 1958 190

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