J. Robert Oppenheimer 
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SOURCE: NPR
12/17/2022
Energy Secretary: Revoking Oppenheimer Security Clearance Was Wrong
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm stated that the revocation of the physicist's clearance after his opposition to the US hydrogen bomb project was the result of a biased process, one historian Kai Bird calls a "kangaroo court."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/16/2020
The Open Mind (Reprinted from 1949)
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
The former head of the Manhattan Project wrote about how to advance peace in the nuclear age, just four years after he directed the construction of the world’s first atomic bomb.
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SOURCE: Calgary Herald
5/31/2020
Robert J. Sawyer Tackles the Atomic Bomb with Alternate-History Novel, “The Oppenheimer Alternative”
Robert J. Sawyer's novel is built around the ethical and moral ramifications of dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which the author hopes will receive deep reflection on their 75th anniversaries.
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SOURCE: NYT
10-11-14
Transcripts Kept Secret for 60 Years Bolster Defense of Oppenheimer’s Loyalty
Hundreds of newly declassified pages from the hearings suggest that Oppenheimer was anything but disloyal.
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