Somebody should document just how involved Wall Street was with the history of the bomb and atomic energy CC: @wellerstein
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@wellerstein I am reading a speech by Gordon Dean, AEC chairman, then Lehman Brothers exec - free market anti-commi luke Baruch and Strauss
@aaronstein1 Ah, right, I forgot Dean was connected there, too. Sachs was also Lehman Brothers.
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@wellerstein I see free market capitalism and the red scare is critical to understanding Atomic legislation. -
@aaronstein1 Atomic Energy Act of 1946 made "the field of atomic energy [an] island of socialism in the midst of a free-enterprise economy" -
@wellerstein Baruch, no? -
@aaronstein1 The quote is James Newman, also a curious guy. Drafted the McMahon Act. Quintessential Cold War liberal, ex-New Dealer. -
@wellerstein Turkey and Iran talk about the bomb like the US did/does - which I find most interesting.
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