Elwin H. Covey. Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists Files, 1945-1947.

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Elwin H. Covey. Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists Files, 1945-1947.

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The Elwin H. Covey, Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists Files contain materials relating to the activities of the AORES and it's efforts to influence U.S. and international atomic energy policy. Materials include correspondence and reports pertaining to the origins and evolution of the organizations which made up the AORES, bills, excerpts from hearings, and speeches and political legislation related to the May-Johnson Bill and the McMahon (Atomic Energy) Act of 1946. The collection also contains copies of AORS, ORES, and AORES Newsletters including the Federation of American Scientists report on the 9/22/46 council meeting. Materials range in date from 1945-1947 and remain in their original order.

.2 lin. ft. (1 archives box)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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This collection of transparencies was used by representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission (A.E.C.) during a presentation before the Alaska House State Affairs Committee, April 4, 1970, in Juneau. At the time of the presentation, the A.E.C. was planning a second underground nuclear test on Amchitka Island in 1971, code-named CANNIKIN. Testimony was heard from several groups against a second test as well as adverse testimony about the first test which took place in October, 1969 and was code n...

Covey, Elwin H.

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Various organizations of atomic energy scientists and engineers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the primary research and production facilities of the Manhattan Project, consolidated in June 1946 to form the Association of Oak Ridge Engineers and Scientists (AORES). These groups were concerned with international control and regulation of atomic energy, dissemination of information to the public and were greatly influential in getting the McMahon Bill passed, which became the Atomic Ene...