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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.

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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