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Nuclear energy -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Spofford Grady English

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-029
Abstract This is a small collection of secondary source materials (photographs, newspapers, news clippings, informational pamphlets, mimeographed notes and a memoir assembled by Susan P. and Helen English, the daughters of Spofford G. English, highlighting his work as both a proponent of nuclear disarmament and an advocate for the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy. Photographs, mostly of group meetings that English attended have been separated from the papers and re-assigned to the CHF...
Dates: 1943-1977; Majority of material found within 1945-1946

Photographs from the Papers of Spofford Grady English

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-029-002
Abstract

Black and white print photographs primarily documenting the professional activities of Spofford Grady English, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission and Chairman of the Plowshare Advisory Committee, between 1959 and 1973.

Dates: 1959-1973

The Papers of J. Hartley Bowen Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: 91-02
Abstract

This is a small collection of primary and secondary source materials detailing work done at the Naval Air Experimental Station in Philadelphia and later in Johnsville, PA during World War II and the Cold War period. Much it concerns the uses of atomic power and the effects of atomic fallout.

Dates: 1938-1981; Majority of material found within 1945-1955