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| Preface |
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| Introduction: ``All the Evil of the 'Times'' |
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| The Setting and the Participants |
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| PART I THE HEARING |
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``The Commission has no other recourse...but to suspend your clearance until the matter has been resolved'' |
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3 | (7) |
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``The items of so-called derogatory information...cannot be fairly understood except in the context of my life and my work'' |
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10 | (19) |
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``An inquiry and not a trial'' |
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29 | (1) |
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``Exploding one of these things as a firecracker over a desert'' |
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30 | (5) |
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35 | (14) |
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``Strictly confidential'' |
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35 | (3) |
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``Those who are not cleared...will necessarily be excused'' |
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38 | (3) |
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``When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it'' |
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41 | (8) |
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49 | (26) |
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``Both an older brother and in some ways perhaps...a father'' |
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49 | (4) |
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``In the case of a brother you don't make tests'' |
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53 | (8) |
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``Then I invented a Cock-and-bull Story'' |
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61 | (11) |
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``You spent the night with her, didn't you?'' |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (19) |
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``I would not clear Dr. Oppenheimer today'' |
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75 | (6) |
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``One can be mistaken about anything'' |
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81 | (4) |
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``Your memory is not refreshed by what I read you?'' ``No, on the whole it is confused by it'' |
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85 | (8) |
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``Of the known leakages of information, Fuchs is by far the most grave'' |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (26) |
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``I would have done anything that I was asked to do...if I had thought it was technically feasible'' |
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94 | (5) |
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``I am not sure the miserable thing will work...[ but it] would be folly to oppose the exploration of this weapon'' |
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99 | (9) |
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``The program in 1951 was technically so sweet that you could not argue about that'' |
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108 | (3) |
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``We kept him under surveillance whenever he left the project. We opened his mail. We did all sorts of nasty things'' |
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111 | (9) |
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120 | (19) |
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``A very human man, a sensitive man,...a man of complete integrity'' |
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120 | (6) |
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``Only when the bomb dropped on Japan,...did we start thinking about the moral implications'' |
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126 | (13) |
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139 | (27) |
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``It is only the great sinners who become the great saints'' |
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139 | (9) |
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``Dr. Oppenheimer's appraisal of the Russian menace...was hard headed, realistic, and thoroughly anti-Soviet'' |
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148 | (5) |
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``My opinion...was that one should try to outlaw the thing before it was born'' |
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153 | (3) |
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``Here is a man of good character, integrity, and of loyalty to his country'' |
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156 | (10) |
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166 | (13) |
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``He is a consultant, and if you don't want to consult the guy, you don't consult him period....We have an A-bomb...* * * and what more do you want, mermaids?'' |
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166 | (13) |
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179 | (15) |
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``A scientist wants to know. He wants to know correctly and truthfully and precisely'' |
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179 | (6) |
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``I don't like to see women and children killed wholesale because the male element of the human race are so stupid that they can't...keep out of war'' |
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185 | (3) |
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``Dr. Oppenheimer...was a natural and 'respected and at all times a loved leader'' |
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188 | (6) |
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194 | (13) |
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``Mr. Chairman, unless ordered to do so by the board, we shall not disclose to Mr. Garrison in advance the names of the witnesses we contemplate calling'' |
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194 | (5) |
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``Here is a man who is being pilloried because he had strong opinions, and had the temerity to express them'' |
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199 | (8) |
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207 | (21) |
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``I was emotionally involved in the Spanish cause'' |
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207 | (9) |
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``I think there is a great deal of difference between being a Communist in 1935 and being a Communist in 1954'' |
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216 | (5) |
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``I am afraid that wars are evil....But the question of morality...you do not have time for when you are to think how you fight'' |
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221 | (4) |
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``Dr. Oppenheimer's individual contribution was the greatest of any member of the General Advisory Committee'' |
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225 | (3) |
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228 | (16) |
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``All of us in the war years...got suddenly in contact with a universe we had not known before...; we suddenly were dealing with something with which one could blow up the world'' |
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228 | (9) |
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``I kept turning over in my mind...what was in Oppenheimer that gave him such tremendous power over these men'' |
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237 | (7) |
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244 | (21) |
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``My feeling is that the masters in the Kremlin cannot risk the loss of their base. This base is vulnerable only to attack by air power'' |
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244 | (5) |
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``I would not rate Dr. Oppenheimer's importance in this field very high for the rather personal reason...that I have disagreed with a good many of his important positions'' |
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249 | (3) |
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``I feel that I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better, and therefore trust I more'' |
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252 | (13) |
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265 | (18) |
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``He used the graphic expression like two scorpions in a bottle, that each could destroy the other'' |
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265 | (6) |
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``ZORC are the letters applied by a member of this group to the four people: Z is for Zacharias, O for Oppenheimer, R for Rabi, and C for Charlie Lauritsen'' |
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271 | (5) |
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``I realized that the program that we were planning to start was not one that the top man in the scientific department of the AEC wanted to have done'' |
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276 | (7) |
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283 | (26) |
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``The adversary process which we seem to be engaged in should be carried out to the fullest extent'' |
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289 | (2) |
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``Dr. Oppenheimer knew the name of the man, and it was his duty to report it to me'' |
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291 | (7) |
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``More probably than not, J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the Soviet Union'' |
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298 | (11) |
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309 | (18) |
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``I wish I could explain to you better why I falsified and fabricated'' |
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311 | (16) |
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327 | (6) |
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``I left the Communist Party. I did not leave my past, the friendships, just like that'' |
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327 | (6) |
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333 | (12) |
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``I felt, perhaps quite strongly, that having played an active part in promoting a revolution in warfare, I needed to be as responsible as I could with regard to what came of this revolution'' |
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333 | (12) |
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345 | (10) |
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``His life has been an open book'' |
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346 | (9) |
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| PART II THE DECISION |
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The Personnel Security Board Reports, May 27 |
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355 | (11) |
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``We have...been unable to arrive at the conclusion that it would be clearly consistent with the security interests of the United States to reinstate Dr. Oppenheimer's clearance'' |
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355 | (7) |
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``Our failure to clear Dr. Oppenheimer will be a black mark on the escutcheon of our country'' |
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362 | (4) |
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Lloyd K. Garrison's Reply to Kenneth D. Nichols, June 1 |
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366 | (5) |
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366 | (5) |
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Kenneth D. Nichols's Recommendations to the AEC, June 12 |
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371 | (5) |
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``I have given consideration to the nature of the cold war...and the horrible prospects of hydrogen bomb warfare if all-out war should be forced upon us'' |
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371 | (5) |
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Publishing the Transcript, June 13-15 |
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376 | (2) |
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Decision and Opinions of the AEC, June 29 |
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378 | (17) |
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``We find Dr. Oppenheimer is not entitled to the continued confidence of the Government...because of the proof of fundamental defects in his character''' |
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378 | (5) |
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``This matter certainly reflects the difficult times in which we live'' |
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383 | (2) |
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``The General Manager has arrived at the only possible conclusion available to a reasonable and prudent man'' |
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385 | (1) |
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``Dr. Oppenheimer failed the test....He was disloyal'' |
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386 | (2) |
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``There is no indication in the entire record that Dr. Oppenheimer has ever divulged any secret information'' |
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388 | (7) |
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| Conclusion: ``An Abuse of the Power of the State'' |
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395 | (4) |
| Suggested Reading |
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399 | (2) |
| Index |
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