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Atomic Energy Committee names Plowshare Advisory Committee

  • 1959-Nov-12

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Press release from the United States Atomic Energy Committee (AEC), identifying the 12 members of the Plowshare Advisory Committee. The Plowshare Advisory Committee was formed to advise the AEC on Project Plowshare, its program to develop peacetime usesfor nuclear explosives.

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U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. “Atomic Energy Committee Names Plowshare Advisory Committee,” November 12, 1959. Photographs from the Papers of Spofford Grady English, Box 1, Folder 1. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/99a7lbi.

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