Many countries have or have had an Atomic Energy Commission. These include:
- Australian Atomic Energy Commission (1952-1987)
- Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (1973-present)
- Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives, France (1945-present)
- Atomic Energy Commission of India (1948-present)
- Japanese Atomic Energy Commission (原子力委員会) (1955-present)
- Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (1956-present)
- United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1948)
- United States Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1974)
Famous quotes containing the words atomic energy, atomic, energy and/or commission:
“The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced—by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
—Erich Fromm (1900–1980)
“Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (b. 1939)