THE ATOM: The Masked Marvel

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Never did so many trust so few so blindly as the people of the U.S. and the rest of the free world trust the members of the Atomic Energy Commission.

These almost unknown men are responsible for making the weapon that holds in check all-out Communist aggression. They spend billions of public funds, tie up a good part of U.S. scientific and business brains, and operate an industrial empire that may be the pioneer of a new technological era. The AEC controls a land area half again as big as Delaware—and...