A legal scholar and long-time student of atomic energy matters examines the new legislation, discussing its major provisions and attempting to forecast how they will work out in practice ...

Aug. 30, 1954: Ike Inks Nuke Law 1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, acknowledging the United States no longer holds a monopoly on nuclear power, signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954.

The Atomic Energy Act of the United States establishes another barrier. Under its terms there shall be no transmission of information to any foreign power dealing with the commercial applications ...

The Biden administration on Friday reversed a 1954 decision by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer.