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Frank Rose, who served as the no. 2 at the Energy Department’s nuclear security agency until April of last year, is suing a former colleague whom he claims “strategically ...
The ultimate tipping point for Lewis Strauss and J. Robert Oppenheimer occurred ... reappointed as the chairman of the AEC, the Oppenheimer affair had made Strauss unpopular among scientists.
So said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to an interviewer in 1948. Last week Oppenheimer’s life—not merely the pros & cons of the security risk charges against him, but the whole development ...
Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.
Lewis Strauss oversaw J. Robert Oppenheimer as chairman of the Atomic ... long history of associating with communists, including an affair with psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, played by Florence ...
A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...
Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory The top-secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, opened in April 1943 with J. Robert Oppenheimer as its scientific director.
Four years after directing the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb, Oppenheimer offers advice on advancing peace in the nuclear age. J. Robert Oppenheimer February 1, 1949 ...
Robert Oppenheimer's name has become almost synonymous with the atomic bomb, and also with the dilemma facing scientists when the interests of the nation and their own conscience collide.