Germantown Site History
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Energy. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Brochure. The brochure is a single sheet printed on both sides, tri-folded, approximately 14.25 inches by 25.5 inches with each panel approximately 4.75 inches by 8.5 inches. Illustrations. The United States Department of Energy complex is one of two administrative complexes of the United States Department of Energy. It is located at 19901 Germantown Road in Germantown, Maryland, on a campus originally developed in the 1950s as the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission. The complex's original five buildings were designed by the New York City architectural firm Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith, a firm prominent in the development of laboratories and associated facilities. It was sited at what was believed to a distance far enough from Washington, DC to survive a nuclear blast on that city. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. The United States Atomic Energy Commission, commonly known as the AEC, was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. This shift gave the members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the atomic bomb. In creating the AEC, Congress declared that atomic energy should be employed not only in the form of nuclear weapons for the nation's defense, but also to promote world peace, improve the public welfare and strengthen free competition in private enterprise. At the same time, the McMahon Act which created the AEC also gave it unprecedented powers of regulation over the entire field of nuclear science and technology. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Germantown, Atomic Energy Commission, David Lilienthal, Cold War, Voohees, Headquarters, Dwight Eisenhower, Lewis Strauss, Carl Durham, Glenn Seaborg
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