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In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the National Security Agency (NSA). [88] Truman and Marshall also sought to require one year of military service for all young men, but this proposal failed as it never won more than modest support among members of Congress. [89]
The Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA) was organized by President Harry S. Truman on December 1, 1950, through Executive Order 10186, [1] and became an official government agency via the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950 on 12 January 1951. [2]
In 1952, Truman secretly consolidated and empowered the cryptologic elements of the United States by creating the National Security Agency (NSA). [86] Truman also sought to require one year of military service for all young men physically capable of such service, but this proposal never won more than modest support among members of Congress. [87]
On November 4, 1952, Truman authorized the official, though at the time, confidential creation of the National Security Agency (NSA). [179] [180] Truman did not know what to do about China, where the Nationalists and Communists were fighting a large-scale civil war. The Nationalists had been major wartime allies and had large-scale popular ...
The National Intelligence Authority (NIA) was the United States Government authority responsible for monitoring the Central Intelligence Group (CIG), the successor intelligence agency of the Office of Strategic Services established by President Harry S. Truman's presidential directive of 22 January 1946 [1] in the aftermath of World War II.
President Harry S. Truman signed the McMahon/Atomic Energy Act on August 1, 1946, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. [3] This shift gave the members of the AEC complete control of the plants, laboratories, equipment, and personnel assembled during the war to produce the ...
Instructs the Environmental Protection Agency to review the Clean Power Plan, instructs the Department of the Interior to lift a ban on coal leasing on federal lands and gets rid of a rule that instructs agencies to consider the climate impact of their policies. It also disbands a team focused on calculating the social cost of carbon.
By 1947 the United States found itself in a Cold War struggle against the USSR.With White House assistants Clark Clifford and George Elsey and State Department official Ben Hardy taking the lead, the Truman administration came up with the idea for a technical assistance program as a means to win the "hearts and minds" of the developing world after countries from the Middle East, Latin America ...