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The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon : adjusting to troubled times

Title
The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon : adjusting to troubled times / Glenn T. Seaborg with Benjamin S. Loeb.
Author
Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999.
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
Loeb, Benjamin S., 1914-2012.
Description
xx, 268 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
In this revealing book, Nobel Laureate Glenn T. Seaborg tells what it was like to be chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission during the Nixon presidency. As in his two other highly-praised historical books (Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban and Stemming the Tide: Arms Control in the Johnson Years), Dr. Seaborg draws extensively from his meticulously kept diary, enabling the reader to be a fly on the wall during meetings with Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and other key policy makers. During the Nixon period, the debate over how to deal with the Soviets on nuclear issues and arms control remained central. On the domestic scene, efforts to promote and regulate the growth of a nuclear power industry were complicated by a rising tide of environmental protest. Dr. Seaborg described how the Atomic Energy Commission, shorn of much of the political immunity of its early years, sought to maintain its programs and ultimately its very existence, while besieged by competing pressures from the White House, other government agencies, antinuclear activists, industry, state governments, and Congress. The Atomic Energy Commission Under Nixon provides valuable information and insights for those interested in nuclear matters, in the governing style and personality of Richard Nixon, and in how the U.S. government functions and fails to function.
Subject
  • Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994
  • Nixon, Richard M. 1913-1994
  • Nixon, Richard M
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission > History
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
  • USA Atomic Energy Commission
  • Etats-Unis. Atomic Energy Commission
  • Nuclear energy > Government policy > History. > United States
  • Nuclear energy > Government policy
  • Kernwaffe
  • Nuclear energy > Government policy > History > United States
  • Énergie nucléaire
  • Politique nucléaire > Etats-Unis > 1970-2000
  • United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-258) and index.
Contents
Prologue: Brief Encounters -- pt. I. Explosions. 1. The Demise of Plowshare. 2. Testing the ABM Warhead -- pt. II. Arms Control. 3. The Nonproliferation Treaty. 4. SALT. 5. The Advice of Scientists -- pt. III. Furor Over Radiation Standards. 6. Monticello. 7. The Environmental Onslaught. 8. Challenge from Within. 9. Lowering the Limits -- pt. IV. Rise and Fall of the Breeder. 10. Getting Off the Ground. 11. Issues Along the Way. 12. Crash Landing -- pt. V. Administrative Matters. 13. A Matter of Justice. 14. Toward a Department of Energy -- Appendix: AEC Commissioners During Chairmanship of Glenn T. Seaborg.
ISBN
  • 0312078994
  • 9780312078997
LCCN
92030137
OCLC
  • ocm26400468
  • 26400468
  • SCSB-1979996
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library