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Atomic Energy Commission   /ətˈɑmɪk ˈɛnərdʒi kəmˈɪʃən/   Listen
Atomic Energy Commission

noun
1.
A former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.  Synonym: AEC.





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"Atomic Energy Commission" Quotes from Famous Books



... waste of time involved in such an elaborate forgery ... Forster trembled with indignation. And using the name of a dead man, above all a scientist who had died in the interests of research, leaving behind him a mystery which still troubled the Atomic Energy Commission, because nobody had ever been able to explain that sudden dive in a plane which was apparently functioning perfectly, and flown by ...
— Warning from the Stars • Ron Cocking


Words linked to "Atomic Energy Commission" :   executive branch, executive agency, Executive Office of the President


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