The records document Consumers' Research's interest in the economic and military security needed for a viable national defense of the United States after its participation in the Second World War (1941-1945) and Consumers' Research's interest in atomic warfare. Subjects included are the explosion of the first atomic bombs, early atomic technology, the "leftist" infiltration of atom bomb secrets, J. Robert Oppenheimer, atomic and nuclear energy, and the Atomic Energy Commission. Also included are materials on economic mobilization and demobilization, civil defense, military art and science, national defense prerogatives, government intervention, the Office of Price Stabilization, and government personnel associated with national defense.