Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Through the eight weeks they read transcripts, studied FBI reports, questioned witnesses, listened to examinations and cross-examinations by counsel. Then, one day last month, they were ready to answer the question: Is J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man who directed the creation of the world's first atom bomb a decade ago, now to be denied access to classified information because he is a risk to the security...
...find his conduct in the hydrogen bomb program sufficiently disturbing as to raise a doubt as to whether his future participation, if characterized by the same attitudes, in a Government program relating to the national defense would be clearly consistent with the best interests of security...
Chevalier is now well known to all security agencies as the man who, in the early days of the A-bomb project, tried to get Oppenheimer to give him details of the atomic program. Chevalier made this effort as a conscious agent of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco. Oppenheimer sternly refused Chevalier's request, but he did not report this significant attempt at Soviet espionage to Army intelligence for at least six months. It was another four months before he would admit to Army intelligence that Chevalier was involved...
...Vital Doubt. The gravest, newest and most serious finding-regardless of the fact that it seemed deliberately written in vague terms-was that Oppenheimer's conduct on the H-bomb was "sufficiently disturbing to raise a doubt." Items...
...late as the autumn of 1949, Oppenheimer was willing to grant an all-out H-bomb effort "a better than even chance" of success within five years. However "he was aware that the efforts being put forth . . . were relatively meager . . . and if research were continued at the same pace, there would be little likelihood of success for many years...