Atomic Energy Newsletter
March 1, 1949 through May 23, 1961
WAS A SUCCESSFUL, PAID SUBSCRIPTION
BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTER CREATED AT
THE START OF THE DRIVE TO
COMMERCIALIZE NUCLEAR ENERGY.
ITS PURPOSE WAS TO BE THE KEY SOURCE
OF NON-CLASSIFIED INFORMATION FOR ANYONE
INTERESTED IN THE NASCENT INDUSTRY.
Since 1961 &
Only Comprehensive
Collection in Digital
Searchable Format
Download nearly 1,600 pages (1949 to 1961) with a donation of your choice!
THE INITIAL 1949 MAILING WAS SENT DIRECTLY TO
THE FBI'S J. EDGAR HOOVER
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THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION IN DIGITAL FORMAT
Atomic Energy Newsletter Compilation © 2016
The only comprehensive collection in digital searchable format covering March 1, 1949 through May 23, 1961.
Below is Just a Sample of the Subject Matter You Will Find
The Atomic Energy Newsletter is a great resource for anyone interested in the nascent industry and its changing landscape between 1949 and 1961.
| Accident | Europe | Propulsion | Arco |
| Agriculture | Food | Protection | Hanford |
| Aircraft | Foreign | Safety | Harwell |
| Benefit | Hazard | Secret | Los Alamos |
| Cancer | Hearings | Senator | Oak Ridge |
| Children | Hydrogen | Sickness | Sandia |
| Contamination | Insurance | Soviet Union | Savannah River |
| Declassification | Medicine | Status Report | Shippingport |
| Disposal | Pacific | Transport | FBI |
| Dump | Pollution | Waste | J. Edgar Hoover |
Atomic Energy Newsletter Compilation ©
12 years of specialized news in two searchable PDF files. The files were assembled from original hard copies and microfilm found in Robert M. Sherman's office and professionally OCRd at 300 dpi gray scale for easy search capability. The AEN Archivist merged the 320 individual issue PDF files into two 1.2gb sized PDF files.
Search Term Frequency of Mention
Samples from Various Newsletters
Please find a few sample clips for your review:
| Search Term | Frequency | Search Term | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accident | 49 | Safety | 226 |
| Agriculture | 44 | Secrecy | 12 |
| Aircraft | 461 | Secret | 142 |
| Atomic Cities | 14 | Security | 114 |
| Benefit | 40 | Senator | 48 |
| Cancer | 207 | Sickness | 13 |
| Children | 8 | Smoking | 3 |
| Cities | 57 | Soviet Union | 95 |
| Cloud | 29 | Status Report | 8 |
| Contamination | 153 | Toxicity | 14 |
| Declassification | 13 | Transport | 89 |
| Disposal | 124 | Waste | 316 |
| Dispose | 58 | ||
| Dump | 17 | Arco | 155 |
| Europe | 158 | Hanford | 273 |
| Fire | 136 | Harwell | 144 |
| Food | 238 | Los Alamos | 173 |
| Foreign | 154 | Oak Ridge | 939 |
| Hazard | 153 | Sandia | 98 |
| Hearings | 79 | Savannah River | 58 |
| Hydrogen | 221 | Shippingport | 33 |
| Insurance | 145 | ||
| International | 366 | AEC | 5854 |
| Medicine | 181 | Eisenhower | 46 |
| Pacific | 80 | Hickenlooper | 10 |
| Pollution | 13 | Lilienthal | 27 |
| Propulsion | 342 | Rickover | 11 |
| Protection | 205 | Truman | 52 |
| USSR | 22 |