Legal Education
Jul. 5, 2023
Oppenheimer vindicated? Not so fast
Oppenheimer lied about his communism his entire life. He lied when he completed his Security Personnel Questionnaires for the AEC, a federal crime, and he perjured himself in his 1954 hearing when he testified as true his written submission to the hearing Board stating that he had never been a member of the Communist Party.
Stephen G. Mason
250 Commercial St
Manchester , NH 3101-
In a few weeks’ time Christopher Nolan’s biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer will premier in theaters. It is based on the book “American Prometheus,” by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book is nevertheless a work of hagiography. It is therefore an appropriate time to examine what we now know about Oppenheimer’s true record.
In 1954, Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atomic bo...
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