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William Sterling Cole was an American politician, lawyer and civil servant, who served as the first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1957 to 1961. Before his appointment to the IAEA he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. April 1904 – 15. March 1987
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W. Sterling Cole Quotes

“"It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it." Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55”

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“It is more sinful to conceal the power of the atom than it is to reveal it.”

W. Sterling Cole

Statement, 9 March 1954. Quoted in Peter G Boyle's The Churchill-Eisenhower Correspondence 1953-55

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