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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 Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the panel.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.
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 ...
At the conclusion of the hearings, Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the board. [202] They unanimously cleared Oppenheimer of disloyalty, but a majority found that 20 of the 24 charges were either true or substantially true and that Oppenheimer would represent a security risk. [203]
Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked, and he became in the public eye a scientist-martyr and victim of McCarthyism. According to Bird and Sherwin, the hearing was a crucial turning point in the relations between scientists and the government and proved a defeat for American liberalism.
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 ...
Downey plays former chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss, a key figure in the revocation of Oppenheimer’s security clearance. “Oppenheimer” is out in theaters July 21.
At the conclusion of the hearings, the board revoked Oppenheimer's clearance by a 2–1 vote. [264] It unanimously cleared him of disloyalty, but a majority found that 20 of the 24 charges were either true or substantially true and that Oppenheimer would represent a security risk. [ 265 ]
Strauss — who was active in his Jewish faith — also took with Oppenheimer's lack of dedication to Judaism. In 1954, Strauss pushed for the revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance during ...