Gordon Dean (December 28, 1905 - August 15, 1958) was an American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1950 to 1953. Events 1065 - Westminster Abbey is Consecrated. 1308 - The reign of Emperor Hanazono, Emperor of Year 1905 ( MCMV) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 778 - The Battle of Roncevaux Pass, at which Roland is killed Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by Congress to foster and control Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Dean received his J. D. from the University of Southern California in 1930 and an LL. The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly M. from Duke University Law School in 1932. The Duke University School of Law is the Law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham North Carolina, United States In 1934, Dean joined the U. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. S. Department of Justice during the New Deal administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The New Deal was the name that United States President Franklin D Dean served under Attorneys General Homer S. Cummings and Frank Murphy as a Criminal Division attorney and press spokesperson. Homer Stille Cummings ( April 30 1870 - September 10 1956) was a U William Francis (Frank Murphy ( April 13, 1890 July 19, 1949) was a Politician and Jurist from Michigan. Dean helped draft expansions of the federal criminal law and defended them in cases argued before the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. In 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson made Dean the press spokesperson for the Department of Justice. Robert Houghwout Jackson ( February 13, 1892 &ndash October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940&ndash1941 and an After World War II military service, Dean served as press spokesperson for now Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson who was the chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political military and economic leadership of Nazi Germany after Prior to his work with the AEC, Dean was professor of criminal law at the University of Southern California (1946-1949). Year 1946 ( MCMXLVI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

He was appointed by President Harry S. Truman as one of the original Commissioners of the AEC in May 1949 and then as the second Chairman of the AEC beginning in May 1950, following David Lilienthal. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. As early as 1950, Dean advocated for the appointment of a Presidential Science Advisor and science advisory task force. ^[1] Dean served at the time of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's creation in 1952. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL) in Livermore California is a scientific research laboratory founded by the University of California in 1952 Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. During Dean's tenure as Chairman, McCarthyism reached its peak. McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States in a period that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s Robert Oppenheimer came under attack by Lewis Strauss, Edward Teller and others for his alleged foot-dragging at Los Alamos. Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss ( January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American businessman government department head and US Naval officer Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15 1908 &ndash September 9 2003 was a Hungarian -American theoretical Physicist Dean defended Oppenheimer. As Cold War tensions heightened and the Korean War raged on, Dean led a massive industrialization of the United States nuclear facilities. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korean and South Korean regimes with major hostilities lasting from June 25 1950 until the The hydrogen bomb, a nuclear weapon of massive and unprecedented force, was perfected during his tenure as Chairman with the detonation of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb, based on Edward Teller's design in October 1952. Ivy Mike was the codename given to the first US test of a fusion device where a major part of the explosive yield came from fusion Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) (January 15 1908 &ndash September 9 2003 was a Hungarian -American theoretical Physicist Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dean served for a brief period under President Eisenhower as well, staying until the completion of his term on June 30, 1953. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14 1890 – March 28 1969 was President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general

Following government service, Dean worked as a private investment banker and as an executive of General Dynamics. Investment banks profit from companies and governments by raising money through issuing and selling Securities in the Capital markets (both equity and General Dynamics Corporation ( is a defense conglomerate formed by Mergers and Divestitures and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest Defense contractor Dean was killed in a commercial aviation accident over Nantucket Island on August 15, 1958.

External links

• Annotated bibliography for Gordon Dean from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues

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