U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

Understanding the Atom

Reactor Safety Study: Appendix VII. Release of radioactivity in reactor accidents

Final Tabulation of Sulfur-isotope Analyses

Availability Listing of Reports Abstracted in Nuclear Science Abstracts

Availability Listing of USAEC Reports

Public Availability of Reports Abstracted in Nuclear Science Abstracts

R.J. Harry

Engineering Capabilities of In-pile Irradiation Facilities Used by GE-ANPD

USAEC Translation List

Consists of AECD 1-2023 (no. 1-1779 called MDDC)

Abstracts of Declassified Documents

Annual Report to Congress of the Atomic Energy Commission

Nuclear Data Tables

General Dynamics Corporation. General Atomic Division

John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied Science

GAMD.

IITRI.

This publication brings back into print the complete testimony, as released by the AEC in 1954, of the hearing called to determine if Oppenheimer was a "security risk." But the importance of the document goes far beyond the considered question of whether to terminate his security clearance: The testimony spans Oppenheimer's personal life from the 1920s to the 1950s, reflects the broader political and scientific stirrings of this period, and raises issues that remain central today. The document develops all these themes—it is a compelling human portrait, an eyewitness history of some of the most important events of the century, and a flashback to one of the points of origin of our present concerns with the arms race and government decision making, conscientious dissent and national loyalty. The testimony is inherently dramatic (as a recent play of the same title has shown). In the title role, Oppenheimer reveals himself as a man of Hamletlike complexity, by turns humble and arrogant, naive and knowing, candid and reserved, witty and deadly serious. His final greatness makes itself felt in that joining of resignation to resolution with which he accepts the adverse outcome of his case (to him, inevitable) and its tragic implications for the nation. As background, the testimony carries the reader through a number of settings: the revolution in physics of the late 1920s; the depression, the rise of Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, and the American left's fascination with another sort of revolution; the war years, the building of the atomic bomb, and the decision to use it; the simultaneous opening of the U.N. and the Cold War, and the failure to bring atomic weapons under international control; and the heyday of McCarthyism with its patriotic hysteria, suspicion, and repression. The abiding pertinence of this document is obvious. It is addressed to a nation loudly debating ABM and MIRV deployment, leftist politics, military-industrial-governmental power, the question of loyalty, the limits of dissent, and the right of a man to define for himself, in conscience, what the "national interest" is or should be, as Oppenheimer did in opposing the creation of the hydrogen bomb. Among those called to give witness in these matters are Fermi, von Neumann, Bethe, DuBridge, Rabi, Teller, Gen, Groves, McCloy, Lilienthal, Karl Compton, Bush, and Conant. For the first time, the transcript has been provided with an index.

Transcript of Hearing Before Personnel Security Board and Texts of Principal Documents and Letters

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Roentgens, Rads, and Riddles, a Symposium on Supervoltage Radiation Therapy at the Medical Division, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies, July 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1956

Design Analysis of a Prepackaged Nuclear Power Plant for an Ice Cap Location

Reactor handbook: materials

This compilation contains 958 references to report and published literature. The references pertain primarily to reactor grade graphite, although information on the manufacture and uses of graphite in other fields is included. The references were selected from Nuclear Science Abstracts (NSA), covering the period 1948 through mid-1961. Subject, author, and availability indexes are provided.

A Selected Bibliography

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