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Legion of Merit (4) Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (/ ˈstrɔːz / STRAWZ; January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer. He was one of the original members of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946 and he served as the commission's chair in the 1950s.
Jul 26, 2023 · After working administrative jobs with the U.S. Navy during World War II, Strauss emerged at the forefront of America’s Cold War nuclear program. History Shorts: How the Atomic Bomb Was Used in WWII
Aug 9, 2023 · World War II saw Strauss active as an intelligence officer, and eventually a rear admiral, and in the immediate postwar period he became involved in U.S. atomic policy. A brief stint as an advisor to the Rockefellers separated his time as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission from his time as its chairman.
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Mar 9, 2024 · Lewis L. Strauss was once a very important man in Washington. An admiral who helped run the Navy’s weapons efforts in the 1940s. ... After World War II, tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers ...
Jul 28, 2023 · The True Story of Lewis Strauss' Rivalry With J. Robert Oppenheimer. ... particularly in the Pacific theater in World War II," he said. "I challenged a little bit the Mozart-Salieri of it all.
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Mar 7, 2024 · Strauss designed the security review as a method of entrapping and ridding himself of Oppenheimer. In his critical review of No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss, Barton J. Bernstein reveals that Strauss was no stranger to dirty tricks: in 1930 he teamed up with a Hoover administration operative to burgle a Hoover critic ...
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Mar 4, 2024 · Starring as Lewis Strauss, the former Marvel actor plays opposite Cillian Murphy's J. Robert Oppenheimer, as one of the original members of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946. The ...
