In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of hearing before personnel security board and texts of principal documents and letters
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262710021 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1084 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gene Bailard said Five Stars. Excellent product delivered on time.. republican values , communisms best friends! This book is so difficult to discuss.lets put Oppenheimer on trial,but lets not call it a trial.lets bring up the q-clearance,top secret records,about Pentagon,air force,military battle plans against the soviet union if we have to go to war.lets talk about bombing women and children ,innocent civilians,so the soviets can use this against America during Korea and Vietnam.in fact lets give the soviet union, and chairman mao ,the crown jewels by publishing it all in an official hearing,so they can officially announce that America is evil,and communism
The abiding pertinence of this document is obvious. In the title role, Oppenheimer reveals himself as a man of Hamletlike complexity, by turns humble and arrogant, naïve and knowing, candid and reserved, witty and deadly serious. The document develops all these themes—it is a compelling human portrait, an eyewitness history of some of the most important events of the century, and a flashback to one of the points of origin of our present concerns with the arms race and government decision making, conscientious dissent and national loyalty. His final greatness makes itself felt in that joining of resignation to resolution with which he accepts the adverse outcome of his case (to him, inevitable) and its tragic implications for the nation. As background, the testimony carries the reader through a number of settings: the revolution in physics of the late 1920s; the depression, the rise of Nazism, the Spanish Civil War, and the American left's fascination with another sort of revolution; the war years, the building of the atomic bomb, and the decision to use it; the simultaneous opening of the U.N. For the first time, the transcript has been provided with an index.. and the Cold War, and the failure to bring atomic weapons under international control; and the heyday of McCarthyism with its patriotic hysteria, suspicion, and repression. The testimony is inherently dramatic (as a rece