The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer : and the birth of the modern arms race
Draws from previously classified documents, unpublished manuscripts, private correspondence, and other sources to chronicle the events that surrounded the revocation of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance in 1954, discussing the roles of physicist Edward Teller, Republican businessman Lewis Strauss, congressional assistant William Borden, and President Eisenhower
collective biographies
viii, 373 pages ; 24 cm
9780670034222, 9780142001158, 0670034223, 0142001155
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David Lilienthal's vacation
The maneuvering begins
The Halloween meeting
The secret debate
Lost opportunities
Fuchs's betrayal
Fission versus fusion
Teller
Ulam
Teller's choice
The second lab
A new era
Sailing close to the wind
Strauss returns
Two wild horses
The blank wall
Hoover
The hearing begins
Smyth
Borden
Caesar's wife
Do we really need scientists?
Oppenheimer
We made it
and we gave it away
Includes index