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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 Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the panel.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 1954 Evans served as one of three panel members at the security clearance hearing of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was the only member who voted to allow Oppenheimer to retain his security clearance. Evans died on August 2, 1957, at Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He had suffered a stroke at his summer home in Fishing ...
This article is about Robert Oppenheimer's 1954 security hearing, which resulted in his Q clearance being revoked. This marked the end of his formal relationship with the government of the United States, and generated controversy as to whether his treatment was fair, or an expression of McCarthyist anti-Communist hysteria.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? Oppenheimer was born Julius Robert Oppenheimer on April 4, 1904 in New York City, according to the Atomic Archive.He studied at Harvard University and University of ...
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 ...
[51] [52] Those in the U.S. government who had long held suspicions about Oppenheimer's judgment and loyalties used these stances as additional fuel, and by the end of 1953 the wheels were in motion that would lead to the Oppenheimer security hearings the following year and the resultant loss of Oppenheimer's security clearance.
At the conclusion of the hearings, Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked by a 2–1 vote of the board.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]
Kitty (Blunt) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) sit through his security hearing in Christopher Nolan’s film. Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures She died in 1978 at the age of 62.