Oppenheimer Cleared [pdf]
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Oppenheimer Cleared [pdf]
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Re: Oppenheimer Cleared [pdf]
#2"Pursuant to the authority vested in the Secretary of Energy to carry out the functions of the Atomic
Energy Commission, I hereby order that the decision rendered on June 29, 1954, In The Matter of
J. Robert Oppenheimer be vacated. "
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#3There's an upcoming movie about Oppenheimer with an A-list cast and Christopher Nolan directing. I wonder if this is to get ahead the incident coming into the public consciousness.
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#4Great, now do David Bohm. Oppenheimer had him blacklisted and he spent the rest of his life in academic exile (Brazil, India, and finally the UK).
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#5Check out the book "American Prometheus" about Oppenheimer. Very compelling read.
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#6> Nevertheless,
recommendation on its appraisal of Dr. Oppenheimer’s past associations (which had already been
the
Personnel Security Board based its
examined when Dr. Oppenheimer’s clearance was renewed in 1947) and
on a finding that if Dr. Oppenheimer had not opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, “the project would have been pursued with considerably more vigor, thus increasing the possibility of earlier success in
this field.”
Damn.
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#7Great, now do David Bohm. Oppenheimer had him blacklisted and he spent the rest of his life in academic exile (Brazil, India, and finally the UK).
I do not have any facts to refute what you say about Oppenheimer, but from what little I have read and Wikipedia it seems that Oppenheimer (Bohm’s PhD supervisor at that) helped him on numerous occasions [1]. Even by recommending him for positions in the UK and ultimately Brazil when Bohm went into exile.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm#Youth_and_college
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#8Any mention of Lewis Strauss is glaringly absent from the document.
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#9Any mention of Lewis Strauss is glaringly absent from the document.
Indeed, fortunately the facts are widely known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss#Strauss_and_Oppe...
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#10> Nevertheless, recommendation on its appraisal of Dr. Oppenheimer’s past associations (which had already been the Personnel Security Board based its examined when Dr. Oppenheimer’s clearance was renewed in 1947) and on a finding that if Dr. Oppenheimer had not opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, “the project would have been pursued with considerably more vigor, thus increasing the possibility of earlier su…
Coming from Granholm this reads like "we have investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong."