United States. Senate. Special Committee on Atomic Energy.
U.S. Senate Special Committee on Atomic Energy records, 1945-1946.
Includes committee papers, reports, petitions, memorials, bills and resolutions, correspondence, legislative case files, transcripts of hearings and executive sessions, investigative files, and other records produced by the Committee. Correspondence consists in the main of communications addressed to the committee by individuals and their organizations submitting on their own volition their views on the subject matter of the committee's inquiry or on the manifold problems arising from the modern development of atomic energy; and of copies of the committee's replies to these communications.
The Special Committee on Atomic Energy was created by Senate Resolution 179, 79th Congress, on October 22, 1945. It mandated an 11-member committee to make a full, complete, and continuing study and investigation with respect to problems relating to the development, use, and control of atomic energy. Committee members included: Senators Brien McMahon (Chairman), Richard B. Russell, Edwin C. Johnson, Tom Connally, Harry F. Byrd, Millard E. Tydings, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Warren R. Austin, Eugene D. Millikin, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, and Thomas C. Hart. The committee functioned during the 79th Congress. On December 20, 1945 Senate Bill 1717, 79th Congress was introduced by Chairman McMahon. After House amendments and Senate revision, H. Report 2670, 79th Congress, 2nd Session was passed by the House on July 26; and by the Senate on the same day. Approved by the President on August 1, Senate Bill 1717 became the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (Public Law 585, 79th Congress).
United States. Senate. Committee on Atomic Energy -- Records and correspondence.
Atomic bomb -- Psychological aspects.
Legislative hearings -- United States.
Nuclear energy -- Public opinion -- 20th century.
Nuclear energy -- United States.
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