Nuclear energy
President Harry S. Truman Signing an Executive Order with Members of the Atomic Energy Commission
In the presence of the Atomic Energy Commission, President Harry S. Truman signs an Executive Order that ended the wartime Manhattan Project and transferred its responsibilities to civilian authority. From left to right, Carroll Wilson, President Harry S. Truman, David Lilienthal, Sumner Pike, Colonel K.D. Nichols, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, General Leslie Groves, Lewis L. Strauss, and William W. Waymack. From the Scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Volume 2.
President Harry S. Truman Meets with the Atomic Energy Control Commission
President Harry S. Truman meets with members of the all-civilian Atomic Energy Commission. From left to right: Sumner Pike, Lewis Strauss, President Truman, Chairman David Lilienthal, Robert F. Bacher, and William W. Waymack.