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The Atomic Energy Commission under Nixon

Adjusting to Troubled Times

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  • © 1993

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  1. Glenn T. Seaborg
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  2. Benjamin S. Loeb
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Prologue: Brief Encounters

    1. Prologue: Brief Encounters

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 1-7

  3. Explosions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Demise of Plowshare

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 11-27

    3. Testing the ABM Warhead

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 29-47

  4. ARMS Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. The Nonproliferation Treaty

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 51-71

    3. SALT

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 73-86

    4. The Advice of Scientists

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 87-97

  5. Furor Over Radiation Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Monticello

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 101-112

    3. The Environmental Onslaught

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 113-122

    4. Challenge from Within

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 123-137

    5. Lowering the Limits

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 139-147

  6. Rise and Fall of the Breeder

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Getting Off the Ground

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 151-168

    3. Issues Along the Way

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 169-179

    4. Crash Landing

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 181-189

  7. Administrative Matters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. A Matter of Justice

      • Glenn T. Seaborg, Benjamin S. Loeb
      Pages 193-209
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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. He 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 describes how the Atomic Energy Commission, shorn of much of the political immunity of its early years, sought to maintain its programmes and ultimately its very existence, while besieged by competing pressures from the White House, other government agencies, anti-nuclear activists, industry, state governments, and Congress.

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