Editorial Note

On August 30, President Eisenhower signed the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, an “Act To Amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1946”. For documentation on the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, see U.S. Senate, 84th Cong., 1st sess., Atoms For Peace Manual; A Compilation of Official Materials on International Cooperation for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, December, 1953–July, 1955, Document No. 55 (Government Printing Office, 1955). That publication also includes the President’s February 17 message to Congress (see the editorial note, page 1360); the Report of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, House of Representatives Report No. 2181, “Amending the Atomic Energy Act of 1946”, July 12, 1954; the Conference Report, House of Representatives Report No. 2666, “Atomic Energy Act of 1954”, August 16, 1954; and Public Law 703, 83d Cong., 2d sess., “Atomic Energy Act of 1954”, August 30, 1954.