Included are records relating to aid, education and cultural exchange, financial affairs, foreign relations, international trade, legal affairs, military affairs, nuclear development and atomic energy, official visits, petroleum, and political affairs.
It must be a policy-making body, dovetailing, say, the collective effort in atomic development, defence and economic policy; evolving common European policies towards the world outside the realm of Europe.
In 1943, there was real fear that the German "uranium club", set up in 1939 and led by the formidable Werner Heisenberg, was well ahead of the Allies in atomic development.
And it describes how the United States turned a blind eye to Israel's own atomic developments.
Einstein had no knowledge of the atomic bomb's development, and no influence on the decision for the bomb to be dropped.
Topics relate to laboratory data from the Franck-Hertz experiments, Franck's work on photosynthesis, the impact of politics and war on science, Franck's role in helping scientists expelled from Nazi Germany, the atomic scientists' movement regarding the development and control of atomic energy, and the Franck Memorial Symposium.
Forrestal and Carpenter took the matter up with Truman, who issued his decision on 21 July 1948: "I regard the continued control of all aspects of the atomic energy program, including research, development and the custody of atomic weapons as the proper functions of the civil authorities".
In Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), successful development and operations of the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) are coordinated by programs to study applied systems of the promising reactor technology.
Simulation work in the field of thermodynamics is a key technology in this undertaking, like e.g. the "in silico" description of mechanisms at the atomic scale, or the development and use of predictive methods that allow to limit the experimental work.
Nevertheless, recent development and atomic scale tailoring of various physical, chemical and surface properties of nanomaterials is promising to dictate their interaction in anticipated manner with biological entities for biomedical applications.
