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Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The First Fifty Years. By Leland Johnson and Daniel Schaffer. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994. xvi, 270 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-87049-853-3. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-87049-854-1.)
On January 1, 1947, the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) succeeded the United States Army Corps of Engineers as the guardian and manager of the nation's atomic energy establishment. Under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, the AEC became the sole developer, promoter, and regulator of nuclear science and technology for both military and peaceful purposes. The commission inherited the Manhattan Project's wartime laboratories and facilities, including Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Los Alamos laboratory pin New Mexico, the Hanford works in Washington State, and the Clinton Laboratories-Oak Ridge facilities in...