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...Physicist in the Garden...
Professional Status. Condon's name came up again over the Bernard Peters affair. In 1949 Dr. Oppenheimer frankly testified before the Un-American Activities Committee to the dangerous Red tendencies of Dr. Bernard Peters, a physicist (who now denies any connection with Communism). Condon, the board found, wrote Oppenheimer an angry, threatening letter, and, as previously disclosed, also tried to inspire a story that Oppenheimer was 1) losing his mind, and 2) about to embrace the Roman Catholic faith. Instead of showing anger at the Condon letter, Oppenheimer wrote to a newspaper in Rochester, where Peters was teaching...
...exploded its first hydrogen bomb in November 1952; Russia, in August 1953. As a matter of actual fact (which neither Dr. Oppenheimer nor any other physicist could have predicted), H-bomb development proved to be no strain on the fission bomb program...
...three U.S. citizens who ruled on the case of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer last week gave their decision no political complexion. Oppenheimer was hired under a Democratic Administration, challenged under a Republican Administration. On the Atomic Energy Commission's special Personnel Security Board, the two Democrats opposed Oppenheimer, the Republican supported him. The three men who decided...
...once the commissioners finished their statement, they disagreed sharply on current handling of the atomic program. The three Truman Administration holdovers (Henry DeWolf Smyth, Thomas E. Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert) warned against a trend toward centralization of authority in Chairman Lewis Strauss. Physicist Smyth declared that on some matters Strauss had closed his fellow commissioners out. Industrialist Murray urged equal "authority, responsibility and access to information" for all five members of the commission...