GOVERNMENT: Atom Blast

The U.S. Government will spend nearly $700 million on atomic energy this year, and this vast project will be largely supervised by a handful of U.S. corporations. Yet major corporations, which will spend hundreds of millions on research this year, will not put one red cent of it into atomic energy research (see SCIENCE). Many companies have even refused to take any part in the Government project.

The Atomic Energy Commission, worried over the enormous problem of integrating its Government-controlled giant into a free-enterprise economy, wanted to know why. It called in...

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