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...after they read that two German scientists had split the atom, the Oppenheimers knew the possible end of that equation: a bomb of almost incomprehensible destructiveness. A problem remained, however: how to build it. After the U.S. entered the war, Oppie was assigned the chief responsibility of figuring that out. At the secret Los Alamos laboratory, he led-and occasionally pushed and shoved-an extraordinary gathering of the country's top minds in constructing the instrument that exploded atop a tower in the desert. When the test bomb detonated, he silently repeated to himself a line from the Bhagavad...
...father of the atom bomb, Oppenheimer enjoyed a postwar eminence equaled perhaps by only one other scientist, Einstein himself. But his fall was even swifter than his rise. He was a political innocent who had never read a newspaper or current-affairs magazine until he was in his mid-30s and did not hear, incredibly enough, about the Great Crash of 1929 until long after it had happened. At Berkeley he associated mostly with leftists-his lover and his brother were both Communists-and although he was never a Communist himself, he lent his name to left-wing organizations...
...Court office that many of his aides never knew about and to unabashedly try to persuade them. He, for instance, consulted with physicist Niels Bohr on the controversial Manhattan Project, and sought to persuade Roosevelt and Secretary of War Henry I. Stimson to disclose America's plans for the atom bomb to the Soviet Union. Only his overriding concern with maintaining the judicial propriety and his skill at perpetuating the "myth of judicial seclusion" kept Frankfurter's lobbying publicly unknown for so long. That--and his tacit ability to harm the careers of those who threatened to buck his will...
With the inevitability of fallout from an atom bomb, the ever growing national concern about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear war landed on Washington last week. There was a special debate in the House on arms control. The Senate held heated hearings on the Administration's strategic policy that raised sharp questions about the need for new weapons systems. Urged by anxious aides to get out front on a populist issue that threatens to overwhelm his plans for a massive military buildup, President Reagan held his first evening press conference-broadcast on television...
...served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960; in San Antonio. A World War II commander of U.S. air campaigns in Europe and the South Pacific, Twining was an unfaltering proponent of airpower and military might. B-29s under his command dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...