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accidents. See nuclear weapons
Acheson, Dean, 72, 73
Acheson-Lilienthal Report, 72, 150
Administrative Procedure Act, 300, 301 ; and
United States Atomic Energy Commis-
sion, 297
air-to-surface ballistic missiles (ASBMs),
275, 276, 277, 280
Alamogordo ( N.M.), 50, 54, 72, 179 ; and
Trinity test, 25, 47, 48, 178
Albuquerque, and Trinity test, 48, 50
Allison, Samuel, 30
American Federation of Labor and Congress
of Industrial Organizations: Executive
Council, 305 ; and Fermi reactor accident,
305 -6
American Nuclear Insurers, and Three Mile
Island accident, 314 -15
Anderson, Oscar E., Jr., 26, 74
Anglo-American Declaration of Trust, 43
Antarctica, as non-nuclear zone, 238
anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs), 212, 239, 261,
272 ; treaty limiting, 260 -65, 272, 274
Argonne National Laboratory. ( Chicago), 99,
122
Arkansas Nuclear One Reactor, and Babcock
and Wilcox, 318
Arkansas Power and Light Company, 318
arms control, 234, 238 -39, 289
arms race, 76, 205, 227, 248
Arnold, Gen. Henry H., 47
Articles of Agreement Governing Collabora-
tion Between The Authorities of the USA
and the UK in the Matter of Tube Alloys.
See Quebec Agreement
atomic bomb, 2, 10, 13, 16, 18, 20, 20 - 21,
22, 24, 25, 26, 40, 45, 48, 67, 68, 75 - 76,
77, 84, 85, 93, 95, 104, 105 -6, 107, 123,
124, 129, 130, 131, 132, 139, 141, 160,
167, 172, 174, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217,
218 ; and Russians, 76 ;test of Joe I, 114 ;
first Soviet, 115 -16, 116 -17, 128, 151 ;
and J. Robert Oppenheimer, 163
Atomic Development Authority, and Baruch
Plan, 94, 95, 96
atomic energy, 8, 19, 110, 212 ;postwar con-
trol of, 71, 72 ;federally conducted re-
search and development, 79 ; private
research and development, 79 ; peaceful
uses of, 80
Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act),
7, 79 - 92, 114, 154, 163, 293, 294 ; founda-
tion of U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,
80 ; to assist research, 80 - 81 ;and federal
atomic research, 81 ; and production of fis-
sionable materials, 81 - 82 ; control of fis-
sionable materials, 82 - 85 ; and military
applications of atomic power, 84 - 85 ; and
atomic energy devices, 85 - 86 ; and prop-
erty of Commission, 86 - 87 ; dissemination
of information, 87 - 88 ; and patents, 88 -
89 ; organizational and general authority of

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