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The Uranium Curtain: Dangers in Secrecy
Beckerly, James C. | June 18, 1955 issue

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An act of the U.S. Congress in 1946 gave unprecedented authority to a commission to control all phases of atomic work, including that fragile but essential item, information. A new law was passed last year reducing some of the abnormalities. But the congenital defect remains, information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy is still controlled along with purely weapons data. Many men of good intent subconsciously or consciously felt the knowledge of how to make fissionable material, key ingredient of bombs and fuel for nuclear-power plants, was an awful secret to be kept within a select circle.

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NUCLEAR energy; UNITED States. Congress; POWER resources; RADIOACTIVE substances; NUCLEAR power plants; UNITED States
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