Government war preparation general files--post-1945 national defense, 1945-1980.

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Government war preparation general files--post-1945 national defense, 1945-1980.

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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.

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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967

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J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physicist (quantum theory and nuclear physics). On the physics faculty at California Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley in theoretical physics, 1929-1947; director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1943-1945; chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, 1946-1952; director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, 1947-1966....

U.S. Atomic Energy Commission

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Consumers' Research, Inc.

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For details of the history of Consumers' Research, Inc. and an overview of its records, see the introduction to this finding aid . From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc., General Files, Series 28-45 (only)., 1903-1982, (Special Collections and University Archives. Rutgers University Libraries) From the guide to the Records of Consumers' Research, Inc.: Administrative Files: Series 1-15, 1917-1983, (Rutgers University. Special Collections and University Ar...

United States. Office of Price Stabilization

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