Den amerikanske atomenergikommission / US Atomic Energy Commission

Historisk amerikansk regeringsorganisation oprettet 1947 som en fortsættelse af the Manhattan Engineer District.
Kommissionen var bl.a. ansvarlig for de amerikanske atomvåbenforsøg i den tidlige del af den kolde krig - herunder dem i the Pacific Proving Grounds og Nevada Test Site samt var ansvarlig for plutoniumsfabrikkerne Hanford Engineer Works, Pinellas Plant, Largo, Florida og Savannah River Site, indtil administrationen af dem blev privatiseret.
Organisationen spaltes som Atomreguleringskommissionen / the Nuclear Regulatory Commission med den kommercielle kernekraftindustri som ansvarsområde og the Energy Research and Development Administration som administrerede energiforskningen, udvikling af atomvåben, og flådens reaktorprogrammer i 1975. Disse organer sammenlægges i 1977 til Det amerikanske energiministerium.

Se også: Atomfysik ; Atoms for Peace ; Lawrence R. Hafstad ; Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan ; Robert J. Oppenheimer ; Plowshare programmet ; Union of Concerned Scientists ; uran.

Se tillige: Operation Anvil ; Aqueduct ; Arbor ; Argus ; Bedrock ; Bowline ; Buster-Jangle ; Castle ; Chariot ; Charioteer ; Cornerstone ; Cresset ; Crossroads ; Crosstie ; Cue ; Dominic ; Dominic II ; Dugout ; Emery ; Fishbowl ; Flintlock ; Fulcrum ; Fusileer ; Greenhouse ; Grenadier ; Grommet ; Guardian ; Hardtack I ; Hardtack II ; Ivy ; Julin ; Latchkey ; Little Feller ; Mandrel ; Musketeer ; Newsreel ; Niblick ; Nougat ; Phalanx ; Plowshare ; Plumbbob ; Praetorian ; Project 56 ; Project 57 ; Project 58 ; Project 58A ; Quicksilver ; Ranger ; Redwing ; Roller Coaster ; Sandstone ; Sculpin ; Storax ; Sunbeam ; Teapot ; Tinderbox ; Toggle ; Touchstone ; Trinity ; Tumbler-Snapper ; Upshot-Knothole ; Whetstone ; Wigwam.

Litteratur

16mm film combined catalog. [Washington] United States Atomic Energy Commission. (1966) - 106 s.
- http://www.archive.org/details/16mmfilmcombined00usatrich
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Idaho Operations Office: SL-1 The Accident: Phases I and II.
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.ntis.A13886VNB1
The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I, 1939-1946. / Richard G. Hewlett, Oscar E. Anderson, Jr.. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1972. - 824 s. - http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/4597121-bHOE2p/
Atomic Shield, 1947–1952: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume II / Richard C. Hewlett and Francis Duncan. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1962 ; 1969. - 768 s. - http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/4582828-c0Mpnp/
Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961. Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission. A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume III. / Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl.
- Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. xxx, 696 pp. ; California Studies in the History of Science, vol. 4.)