Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born in New York in 1904," Oppenheimer wrote to the AEC. "My father had come to this country at the age of 17 from Germany. He was a successful businessman and quite active in community affairs ... I attended the Ethical Culture School and Harvard College, which I entered in 1922." . A classmate recalls that, as a third-or fourth-grader, Robert made one of his infrequent trips to the playground. A child threw a ball out of the lot, and the school director admonished the youngsters, telling them they might have injured a passerby. Robert immediately calculated the probable force...
...story of Oppenheimer's prewar Communist associations was known to the Government, in its essentials and most of its details (as now stated by the AEC), when Oppenheimer was appointed to head the Los Alamos atomic laboratory in early 1943. There is no question of pro-Communist sympathy on the part of Lieut. General Leslie Groves, who appointed him and who last week reaffirmed his belief in Oppenheimer's loyalty...
Oppenheimer's first really severe setback as the Statesman of the Atom came in the fight over whether to make the H-bomb. Here is how Oppenheimer tells the story in his letter to the AEC: "No serious controversy arose about the Super [the H-bomb] until the Soviet explosion of the atomic bomb in the autumn of 1949. Shortly after that event, in October 1949, the Atomic Energy Commission called a special session of the General Advisory Committee and asked us to consider and advise on two related questions: "First, whether in view of the Soviet success...
Oppenheimer confirmed Reston's information that he had been suspended as an AEC adviser, but declined to give further details. Reston felt it would not be in the public interest to print what he knew at that point, quietly put his bureau to work digging out background...
...when Senator Joe McCarthy broadly hinted on TV that he was about to let go a blast at Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19), Reston went to Oppenheimer again. This time Oppenheimer offered to give him both the AEC charges against him and his reply, though he insisted that the documents be for background only and not for publication. Reston refused to accept such conditions, since he knew that the story would break any time and did not want to be tied down to such a promise. Next day Reston went at Oppenheimer again, argued that the Times was entitled...