Word: abomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James V. Forrestal, a Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Strauss was appointed to the AEC in 1946. During a dispute in the scientific community, Strauss backed the development of the hydrogen bomb when it was opposed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the Abomb. Strauss prevailed, and in dramatic loyalty hearings in 1954, Oppenheimer lost his security clearance. When President Eisenhower nominated Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce in 1959, the Senate voted 49-46 against his confirmation largely because of a politically controversial contract, negotiated during his chairmanship, for privately financed electricity to be used...
...infant during World War II, his father later participated in development of the hydrogen bomb.) For the scientists in McMahon's New Mexico, the creation of the Bomb involves a minimum of moral anguish and soul searching. There is the war. There is the threat of a Nazi Abomb. There is intoxication with the new vistas of accomplishment to be born of the energy they are both creating and taming. Overriding all is the challenge to their talent and the catalyst of such an assemblage of genius supported by resources made available in unprecedented quantity...