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Author McMillan, Priscilla Johnson, 1928-2021.

Title The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer : and the birth of the modern arms race / Priscilla J. McMillan.

Imprint New York : Viking, 2005.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  530 Op5Bm 2005    ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 373 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-342) and index.
Summary Draws from previously classified documents, unpublished manuscripts, private correspondence, and other sources to chronicle the events that surrounded the revocation of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance in 1954, discussing the roles of physicist Edward Teller, Republican businessman Lewis Strauss, congressional assistant William Borden, and President Eisenhower.
Contents David Lilienthal's vacation -- The maneuvering begins -- The Halloween meeting -- The secret debate -- Lost opportunities -- Fuchs's betrayal -- Fission versus fusion -- Teller -- Ulam -- Teller's choice -- The second lab -- A new era -- Sailing close to the wind -- Strauss returns -- Two wild horses -- The blank wall -- Hoover -- The hearing begins -- Smyth -- Borden -- Caesar's wife -- Do we really need scientists? -- Oppenheimer -- We made it -- and we gave it away.
Subject Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 (OCoLC)fst00001453
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003 (OCoLC)fst00031911
Manhattan Project (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00635166
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Nuclear physics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Atomic bomb. (OCoLC)fst00820568
Nuclear physics. (OCoLC)fst01040386
Physicists. (OCoLC)fst01063014
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0670034223
9780670034222

 
    
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