The following table compares total actual disbursements for the atomic energy project (Manhattan Engineer District and Atomic Energy Commission) with the total gross national product, total major national security expenditures, total expenditures by the Federal Government, and total expenditures by the Department of Defense, during the postwar years. Comparison of total Atomic Energy Commission expenditures with total grossnational product, major national security expenditures, total Federal expenditures, and total Department of Defense expenditures, fiscal years 1946–53 1 Market value of the output of goods and services produced by the Nation's economy. ? Does not include civil functions expenditures by the Corps of Engineers. Somewhat less than one-eighth of fiscal year 1946 had elapsed before hostilities ended. To make rough. allowance for that fact, the fiscal year 1946 figures are only seven-eighths of the totals listed in the budget records. Estimated on the basis of classifications available for those years. • Includes expenditures for military services, international security and foreign relations (except foreign loans), atomic energy, merchant marine, promotion of defense production and economic stabilization, and civil defense. Source: Economic Indicators, monthly report prepared for the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, U. S. Congress. * Estimated on the basis of 1952 prices. ' President's Midyear Budget Review, Aug. 19, 1952. Army officers, appointment to Commission....... 2 (d) 5 Atomic bombs. (See Military applications of atomic energy.) Atomic energy, definition__. Atomic Energy Commission: Acquisition of— Fissionable material.......... 5 (a) 5 (b) 5 (b) (7) Appointment of Army, Navy or Air Force officers to... 2 (d) Authority. (See General authority of the Commission.) 14 14 Employees (see also Atomic Energy Commission, organi zation): Appointment.. 12 (a) (4) 26 Compensation... Former employees of Manhattan Engineer District Housing, health, and safety---- 12 (a) (5) 26 Subject Atomic Energy Commission-Continued Investigations by FBI and Civil Service Commission_. Utilization of Federal, State, or local government Exploration (see also Exploration to determine location Payment to local governments in lieu of property taxes__ Production of atomic bombs and other military weapons utilizing fissionable materials, (B) (i) 4 (c) (2) 2 82 Research and development work, assistance in (see also Research and development work by Commission: 2 (a) 47072 Atomic weapons. (See Military applications of atomic energy.) Attorney General of the United States, prosecution by---- Authorization to armed forces to produce atomic weapons. (See Military applications of atomic energy.) Byproduct materials: Definition. Distribution..... 5 (c) (2) 14 Byproduct power_ 7 (d) 16 Civil Service Commission, investigations by (see also Federal Military personnel serving with Commission. Congress of the United States, reports by Commission to.... 2 (b) 4 12. (c) 27 2 (c) 4 11 (e) 24 13 27 2 (a) (2) 3 2 (a) (4) 4 2 6 15 Development. (See Research.) 5 (a) (1) 9 18 (b) 31 8 (a) 17 18 (c) 31 4 (a) 8 18 (e) 31 10 (b) (1) 19 5 (b) (1) 11 18 (d) 31 6 (a) 14 Development work in military application of atomic energy Director of Division of Military Application, appointment of Dissemination of information, encouragement of (see also 1 (b) (2) 428 Disposition of radioactive and other materials. (See General Divisions within the Commission. Eligibility determining reasonable royalty fee for patents.. Employees of the Commission. (See Atomic Energy Commission, employees, also organization.) Employees of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. (See Employees of Manhattan Engineer District_ Equipment or device utilizing fissionable material or atomic Experiments in military application of atomic energy. (See Exploration to determine location of source materials___ Explosions, protection against.. Facilities devoted to atomic energy research and development. Facilities for the production of fissionable material, definition. |