Abstract

Pattern for America

Atomic development is by now a thoroughgoing commitment of the principal industrialized nations of the world. While many details of this current program of nuclear research and development are obscured by considerations of secrecy, the continuing activity and the mounting progress are clear enough. Any conscientious reader of the reports of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and of the hearings of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy of the United States Congress can follow their general outline. Appropriation requests to the Congress furnish another clue. And the daily press, though sometimes excitable or visionary, mirrors the cumulative atomic ferment. One of the most significant changes in the nuclear activities of the United States government during the past year has been the emergence of a limited but real emphasis upon atoms for peace.