Corporate-Government-Fusion

Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime

1946-08-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

President Harry Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 on August 1, establishing the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to control the development and production of nuclear weapons and to develop nuclear power. The act creates unprecedented peacetime secrecy powers and establishes the framework for …

Congress Harry Truman Brien McMahon Atomic Energy Commission David Lilienthal +2 more national-security-state regulatory-capture secrecy nuclear-industry military-industrial-complex +1 more

War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model

1942-01-16 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the War Production Board (WPB) to coordinate wartime production, staffing it with corporate executives as ‘dollar-a-year men.’ This establishes a precedent for corporate-government partnership where business leaders shape government policy while …

Franklin D. Roosevelt Donald Nelson War Production Board Defense contractors William Knudsen corporate-government-fusion war-profiteering revolving-door defense-industry institutional-capture