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That is, younger? Sherwin: He did? Hobson: One thing that used to happen to particularly interesting and sensitive papers was that Kitty would take them home, and then they would get lost. Lots of things went that way, including a whole batch of interesting tapes. It was very embarrassing because we had promised [Dean] Acheson that only one copy would be made, and we made two copies and we kept them.

When he found out he was quite angry. Louis Hempelmann : He [J. Robert Oppenheimer] just told me what the situation was. He did not ask me, which is the same thing when he got sick because I was in the radiology department here and I knew something about it. Martin Sherwin : Was there a lot of effort to trying to figure out the psychology that the people who were sitting in judgement [at J.

Verna Hobson : No. I remember that after the first—they came back, I suppose, the weekend in the middle of the hearings. I think they had a few days, and then they came back, and then they went to Washington again for the rest of it. It was in this role that he voiced strong opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb. In , at the height of U. The scientific community, with few exceptions, was deeply shocked by the decision of the AEC.

In , President Lyndon B. Johnson attempted to redress these injustices by honoring Oppenheimer with the Atomic Energy Commission's prestigious Enrico Fermi Award. There, he stimulated discussion and research on quantum and relativistic physics in the School of Natural Sciences.

Oppenheimer retired from the Institute in and died of throat cancer on February 18, The project involved several laboratories in secret locations across the country, including the University of Chicago; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Oppenheimer oversaw the construction of the Los Alamos laboratory, where he gathered the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating an atomic bomb.

As Chairman of the General Advisory Committee, Oppenheimer opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb. In the context of the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union jockeyed for power, Oppenheimer's stance was controversial.

In the s, while Oppenheimer was Director of the Institute, anti-Communist hysteria was sweeping through Washington, D. McCarthy and anti-Communist zealots devoted themselves to rooting out Communist spies from every walk of American life.

In , he was denied security clearance and lost his position with the AEC. Doors that had formerly been open to him were closed. In April , the U.

Government made amends for the treatment Oppenheimer suffered during the McCarthy years, when President Kennedy invited him to a White House dinner of Nobel Prize winners. A number of plays have been written about Oppenheimer, and American composer John Adams Nixon in China composed an opera commissioned by the San Francisco Opera entitled Doctor Atomic, which premiered in September He lives contently in seclusion.

Browse our collection of oral histories with workers, families, service members, and more about their experiences in the Manhattan Project. Skip to main content. Peter Oppenheimer.

Early Life Peter was born in in California, and moved with his parents to Los Alamos when his father became the Director of the Manhattan Project. Return to New Mexico After an ostensibly unhappy childhood in Princeton, Peter went west soon after high school.

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