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AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, a long-time Oppenheimer adversary, rendered the final verdict denying his security clearance. Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the panel. Gray and Morgan voted in favor, Evans against. The board rendered its decision on May 27, 1954, in a 15,000-word letter to Nichols.
The board ultimately voted 2–1 to strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance. [ 3 ] In 1969, Robb represented Barry Goldwater in his libel suit against Ralph Ginzburg and Fact magazine, which had claimed that Goldwater was mentally unstable.
In the end, Strauss ensured that Oppenheimer's security clearances are revoked—simply to embarrass him. The hearing ended just a day before the clearances were set to expire regardless, and his ...
Strauss was the driving force behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing, held in April and May 1954 before an AEC Personnel Security Board, in which Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. As a result, Strauss often has been regarded as a villain in American history.
In 2022, 55 years after Oppenheimer's death, the Department of Energy nullified the 1954 decision to revoke Oppenheimer's security clearance.
Oppenheimer is the first film to properly tackle the scientist and his legacy, which was marred by a controversial 1954 hearing that resulted in his security clearance being revoked. Who was J ...
In 1954 Gray chaired a committee appointed by AEC chairman Lewis Strauss, which recommended revoking Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance. The Gray Board, as it was known, issued its split decision on May 27, 1954, with Gray and Thomas A. Morgan recommending the revocation, despite their finding that Oppenheimer was a "loyal citizen."
As the film kept returning to the 1954 hearing that resulted in Oppenheimer losing his security clearance, ... Oppenheimer’s A-bomb was already an obscenely overscaled monster.