Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concerning your inhuman equation of Senator McCarthy and J. Robert Oppenheimer: I must say that ... I have never read such a sickening . .. and unfeeling . . . piece ... I certainly agree with your opinions on McCarthy, but when you say that Oppenheimer puts his judgment above the law and "he has a basic disrespect for security regulations," it seems to me that you are not only playing partisan Republican politics, but you are submitting yourselves to the . . . greatest degree of misunderstanding...
...Looking by hindsight, do you think he showed good judgment in the fact that he opposed this bomb in the light of present conditions...
...Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, now president of the Carnegie Institution. Bush had "complete confidence in Oppenheimer's loyalty, judgment and integrity." But he would not presume to prejudge the case before the board...
...think he showed exceedingly poor judgment. I told him so the first time he told me he was opposed to it. I have continued to think so. The thing which I thought at that time was the overpowering reason for building the hydrogen bomb was [that] if we did not do it, some day we might wake up and read headlines and see pictures of an explosion such as we saw a month or so ago, only this would be done off the coast of Siberia. I felt sure that this would be one of the most disastrous things that...
...motives are just something that you can't discuss, but all his reactions were such as to give me considerable worry about his judgment as a security risk...