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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing (Cornell Paperbacks)

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Description for In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing (Cornell Paperbacks) Paperback. Editor(s): Polenberg, Richard. Num Pages: 448 pages, 19. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWJ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 620.

At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded the Medal for Merit, the highest honor the U.S. government can bestow on a civilian. Yet, in 1953, Oppenheimer was denied security clearance amidst allegations that he was "more probably than not" an "agent of the Soviet Union." Determined to clear his name, he insisted on a hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission's Personnel Security Board.

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer contains an edited and annotated transcript of the 1954 ... Read more

Among the forty witnesses who testified were many who had played vitally important roles in the making of U.S. nuclear policy: Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Vannevar Bush, George F. Kennan, and Oppenheimer himself. The hearing provides valuable insights into the development of the atomic bomb and the postwar debate among scientists over the hydrogen bomb, the conflict between the foreign policy and military establishments over national defense, and the controversy over the proper standards to apply in assessing an individual's loyalty. It reveals as well the fears and anxieties that plagued America during the Cold War era.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
620g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486616
SKU
V9780801486616
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About Unknown
Richard Polenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of American History at Cornell University. Among his previous books is Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech, also from Cornell.

Reviews for In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing (Cornell Paperbacks)
The Polenburg edition has a number of important virtues, beginning with the fact that it brings this classic back into print, three decades after the original 1954 edition was reprinted by MIT Press in 1971. Whereas the original volume extended over a thousand pages of tiny, densely packed type and was nearly unreadable for more than a few pages at ... Read more

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