1940s Established to Meet the Needs of the Nation

1940s Established to Meet the Needs of the Nation

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1946

Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (P.L. 79-585) created the Atomic Energy Commission to foster the peaceful uses of atomic energy; and set up an Industrial Information Branch to facilitate the transfer of scientific and technical information to the private sector

1947

Technical Information Division, precursor of OSTI, established to manage information pursuant to the Manhattan Project and to maintain the growing collection

1947

Abstracts of Declassified Documents published to meet needs of researchers

1948

World famous Nuclear Science Abstracts periodical introduced