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    The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) determined how the United States would control and manage the nuclear technology it had jointly developed with...
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    The Atomic Energy Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6, c. 80) is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom which vested in the Minister of Supply the power to control...
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    regulation, and disposal of nuclear materials and facilities in the United States. It was an amendment to the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 and substantially refined...
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    development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic...
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  • Atomic Energy Authority Act. The Atomic Energy Act 1946 (c. 80) The Atomic Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1981 (c. 48) The Atomic Energy Act 1989...
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    establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (the McMahon Act). McMahon served as chairman of the Senate...
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    pursuant to section 142 [of the Act]. The concept was initially introduced, with similar wording, in the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. It was added at a relatively...
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    Commission (AEC) was created to control the future of the project. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 also created the framework for the first National Laboratories...
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  • Code. Antiquities Act Atomic Energy Act of 1946 Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Clean Air Act Clean Water Act Coastal Zone Management Act Comprehensive Environmental...
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    The Employment Act of 1946 ch. 33, section 2, 60 Stat. 23, codified as 15 U.S.C. § 1021, is a United States federal law. Its main purpose was to lay the...
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  • Undersecretary of War, and Counsel to the US Senate Committee on Atomic Energy. In the latter capacity, he helped to draft the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. He became...
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    spectrum of topics beneath each: Atomic Energy Act of 1946 Atomic Energy Act of 1954 Born secret Classified information in the United States Export of cryptography...
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  • brothers William McMahon, a former Prime Minister of Australia McMahon Act, or the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 McMahon government McMahon killings McMahon ministry...
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    21, 2023. "Secretaries of Energy". Energy.gov. Retrieved November 21, 2023. "Atomic Energy Act of 1946" (PDF). US Library of Congress. Retrieved September...
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    The loss of the American monopoly on nuclear weapons marked the first tit-for-tat of the nuclear arms race. With the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the U.S...
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  • aspects of nuclear power from 1946 through 1977. It was established by the United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and was the overseer of the United...
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    of atomic energy was principally governed by two acts of Parliament: the Atomic Energy Act 1946 and the Radioactive Substances Act 1948. The 1946 Act...
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    in the production of nuclear material for use in a nuclear weapon. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 gave the newly-formed Atomic Energy Commission ownership...
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    nuclear weapons to be a joint discovery, but the American Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) restricted other countries, including the UK, from access...
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    States terminated co-operation after the war ended, under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946. That prompted the United Kingdom to relaunch its own project...
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    over the peacetime management of the nuclear program, the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 created the United States Atomic Energy Commission to take over the...
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  • Ernest Titterton (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science)
    passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, known as the McMahon Act, all British government employees had to leave. He was the last member of the British...
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  • Clifton Truman Daniel (category Place of birth missing (living people))
    member of the Valley of Chicago. Daniel visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 2012, the sites where his grandfather had ordered the only use of atomic bombs...
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    passing, or passing the buck, or sometimes (playing) the blame game, is the act of attributing to another person or group one's own responsibility. It is often...
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    beginning of the Cold War, to ensure adequate supplies of uranium for national defense, the United States Congress passed the U.S. Atomic Energy Act of 1946, creating...
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  • The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care published 1946 – Employment Act 1946 – United States Atomic Energy Act of 1946 1946 – President's Committee...
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    Project Y (category History of the Manhattan Project)
    passage of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, known as the McMahon Act, all British government employees had to leave. All had left by the end of 1946, except...
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    Charles Steen (category University of Texas at El Paso alumni)
    incentives for domestic uranium prospectors. Under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission had the authority to withdraw lands from...
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    of nuclear materials began in the United States under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission, created by the United States Atomic Energy Act of...
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    speech directly led to changes to the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 This act was later known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and eased restrictions on nuclear...
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