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- Birth nameJames O'Brien McMahon
- Brien McMahon was born on October 6, 1903 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. He was married to Rosemary Turner. He died on July 28, 1952 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- SpouseRosemary Turner(February 6, 1940 - July 28, 1952) (his death, 1 child)
- Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1935-1939.
- Sponsored the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act), establishing the civilian United States Atomic Energy Commission to supervise U.S. nuclear technology.
- United States Senator from Connecticut, 1945-1952.
- Co-chair, Joint Senate House Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949-1952.
- The President of the United States has now given orders to build the hydrogen bomb - to create, in deliverable quantities, those chunks of the sun technically known as thermonuclear weapons... I believe that every morning each member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and each high official of the executive branch, should glance at the sun and reflect that what he sees there, millions of miles away, threatens to be recreated on this earth, in our own cities, in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. This is a time for soul-reaching, for nation-wide and world-wide debate, and for the launching and maintaining of that moral crusade for peace which alone can save us and lead mankind along the righteous paths of security, abundance, and liberty.
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