United States Atomic Energy Commission facts for kids
The United States Atomic Energy Commission was an agency of the United States government, started after World War II by the United States Congress. It was made to help the development of atomic science and technology. This was because the control of atomic energy was with the people after president Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act in 1946. Congress then declared that atomic energy should be used for peace, not nuclear war.
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President Harry S. Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946
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Gordon Dean, who chaired the AEC from 1950 to 1953
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower with AEC chair Lewis Strauss in 1954
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AEC chair Glenn T. Seaborg with President John F. Kennedy in 1961
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Dixy Lee Ray, last person to chair the AEC, with Robert G. Sachs, director of the Argonne National Laboratory
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In Spanish: Comisión de Energía Atómica de los Estados Unidos para niños
