Word: bomb
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...much as any other one man. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who bossed the Los Alamos project during World War II, created the atomic bomb. For the past several months, Oppenheimer has been the nucleus of a top-secret political Abomb. This week the New York Times -on information provided by Oppenheimer himself-broke the news. On Dec. 23, 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission suspended J. Robert Oppenheimer as a security risk...
Oppenheimer's move seemed to be an answer to Joe McCarthy, who last week asked if "traitors to our Government" had not caused an 18-month delay in U.S. development of the H-bomb. Oppenheimer turned over to the Times two letters...
...That Oppenheimer, as chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC, strongly opposed the development in 1949 of the hydrogen bomb, and lobbied against it even after President Truman gave the go-ahead order...
Replied Oppenheimer, in his letter answering Nichols: "Though of course I would have no desire to retain an advisory position if my advice were not needed, I cannot . . . accept the suggestion that I am unfit for public service." He flatly denied that he had lobbied against the H-bomb after the Truman order, or that he had ever given any secret information to unauthorized persons...
Likewise, in the case of Oppenheimer, it is apparently not the bulk of somewhat shop-worn charges of leftism which prompts the present suspension, but rather the one sensational fact that Oppenheimer misjudged the importance of the H-bomb project...