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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
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