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IN reply to several questions asked in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister has stated that many questions involved in the future of atomic energy, including that of the international handling of the subject and its possible development for industrial purposes, are engaging the attention of the Government. To assist the Government in dealing with the far-reaching questions raised by the discovery, both as regards its international treatment and its further development in Britain, whether for industrial or military purposes, the Government has appointed the following advisory committee: Sir John Anderson (chairman), Sir Alexander Cadogan, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; Field-Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff; Sir Alan Barlow, Second Secretary of the Treasury; Sir Edward Appleton, secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; Sir Henry Dale, president of the Royal Society; Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, Langworthy professor of physics in the University of Birmingham; Sir James Chadwick, professor of physics in the University of Liverpool; and Sir George Thomson, professor of physics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. In response to further questions as to the precise functions of this committee, Mr. Attlee stated that it will advise the Government both with regard to the scientific progress and the general background of the whole subject, but that the Government itself will decide questions of policy arising out of the discovery.
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Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy. Nature 156, 262–263 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156262b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156262b0