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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense

Book by Rachel L. Holloway; Praeger Publishers, 1993

Subjects:

Hydrogen Bomb--History, Internal Security--United States, Oppenheimer, J. Robert--1904-1967, Oppenheimer, J. Robert--1904-1967--Trials, Litigations, Etc, Physicists--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1953-1961

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In contrast to historical and political explanations of the Oppenheimer case, Rachel Holloway explores the role that rhetoric played in Oppenheimer's removal from government service. In doing so, the author draws attention to the symbolic nature of politics and character and highlights the ...
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In contrast to historical and political explanations of the Oppenheimer case, Rachel Holloway explores the role that rhetoric played in Oppenheimer's removal from government service. In doing so, the author draws attention to the symbolic nature of politics and character and highlights the significant interaction of political and scientific terminologies in American discourse.
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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing

Book by Richard Polenberg; Cornell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Hydrogen Bomb--History, Internal Security--United States, Oppenheimer, J. Robert--1904-1967--Trials, Litigation, Etc, Physicists--United States--Biography, United States--Politics And Government--1953-1961

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An edited and annotated transcript of the 1954 hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission in which this preeminent physicist attempted to clear himself of the charge of being a communist. Polenberg draws on recently declassified FBI files for introductory and concluding essays.
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Conscience, Science and Security: The Case of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

Book by Cushing Strout; Rand McNally, 1963

Subjects:

Oppenheimer, J. Robert--1904-1967

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...confession of Fuchs as atom spy. In the fall, Oppenheimer offers to resign...Rosenbergs as atom spies begins...In November, Oppenheimer drafts Chapter...creation of the atom bomb was established with Oppenheimer as its director...
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In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board, Washington D.C., April 12, 1954, through May 6, 1954

Book; U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954

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...responsible for the employment on the atom-bomb project of individuals who were...attended a meeting at the home of Frank Oppenheimer on January 1, 1946, with David Adelson...through your brother, Frank Friedman Oppenheimer, in connection with this matter; and...
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The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present, 1939-1984

Book by Robert C. Williams, Philip L. Cantelon; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984

Subjects:

Deterrence (Strategy)--History--20th Century--Sources, Nuclear Disarmament--History--Sources, Nuclear Energy--History--Sources, Nuclear Nonproliferation--History--Sources, Nuclear Weapons--History--Sources, United States--Military Policy

Collections: History, Entire Library

...under title: The American atom. 1. Atomic weapons--History...full of dangers. J. Robert Oppenheimer to James Conant October 12...contributions to the theory of the atom bomb were British, not American...the letters of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the recently declassified...

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Journal Articles on: oppenheimer atom

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If Gifted/learning Disabled Students Have Wisdom, They Have All Things!

Journal article by Jin-Young Kim, Young-Gun Ko; Roeper Review, Vol. 29, 2007

Subjects:

Gifted persons--Evaluation, Gifted persons--Psychological aspects, Learning disabled persons--Evaluation, Learning disabled persons--Psychological aspects, Learning disabled--Evaluation, Learning disabled--Psychological aspects, Wisdom--Influence

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...hydrogen and the structure of the atom in parallel is one of the...result, we chose J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the "father of...Comparison of IQs among Bohr, Oppenheimer, and Fermi This study uses...Bohrs AI IQ is 153, while both Oppenheimers and Fermis IQs are 164 (see...
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Unthinkable Fathering: Connecting Incest and Nuclearism

Journal article by Jane Caputi; Hypatia, Vol. 9, 1994

Subjects:

Femininity (Philosophy), Feminism--United States, Feminist Theory

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...mission to develop the atom bomb. He and Carol...by naming J. Robert Oppenheimer "Father of the Year...notion of the "peaceful atom." Many of these people...adventuring. J. Robert Oppenheimer, for example, reflecting...the quest to split the atom, avowed, "It is my judgment...
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Series and Systems: Russian and American Dystopian Satires of the Cold War

Journal article by Derek Maus; Critical Survey, Vol. 17, 2005

Subjects:

Aleshkovsky, Yuz--Criticism and interpretation, Catch-22 (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Cold War, 1945-1991, Dystopias--Analysis, Heller, Joseph (American writer)--Criticism and interpretation, Modern American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Post-Stalin literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...words not only parody several of Robert Oppenheimers most famous utterances, (32) but also...conspicuously foils Hoenniker against Oppenheimer (whose adamant opposition to the hydrogen...moral ignorance instead of--at minimum--Oppenheimers more ambivalent reflection. The creation...
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Nuclear Futures

Journal article by Joseph P. Tomain; Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol. 15, 2005

Subjects:

Energy law--Environmental aspects, Environmental impact analysis--Laws, regulations and rules, Environmental protection--Laws, regulations and rules, Nuclear industry--Environmental aspects

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...power is the very idea that out of the atom can come massive amounts of energy that...MAZUZAN J. SAMUEL WALKER, CONTROLLING THE ATOM: THE BEGINNINGS OF NUCLEAR REGULAT1ON 1946-1962...8 (1987); DANIEL FORD, THE CULT OF THE ATOM 50 (1982). (36.) Price-Anderson Act of...
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From Trauma to Paranoia: Nuclear Weapons, Science Fiction and History

Journal article by Cyndy Hendershot; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999

Subjects:

Defense reaction (Physiology)--Analysis, Motion pictures--Social aspects, Nuclear warfare in motion pictures--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Science fiction films--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...atomic energy "revolutionary," Oppenheimer described it as "promethean...them or to let them die. The atom bomb draws its meaning from...understand the science, like Oppenheimer, made similar moves. If the...Sherwood. Universal, 1957. Oppenheimer, J.R. "The New Weapon: The...

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Magazine Articles on: oppenheimer atom

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Oppenheimer Investigated

Magazine article by Robert Erwin; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 18, Autumn 1994

Subjects:

Oppenheimer, J. Robert--Conduct of life, Physicists--Conduct of life

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...alleges that not only Oppenheimer but also physicists...secrets" of the atom bomb to Moscow in...electron jumps from one atom to another the two...grade and the Ph.D., Oppenheimer apparently experienced...from making its own atom bomb soon. (It is...physicist about Oppenheimers age.) When the Soviets...
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Treason Still Shadows J.R. Oppenheimer; ...Oppenheimer, Operating in a Group of Known Communists, Emerges as a Secret Member of the Party. but How Did He Respond to Those Soviet Solicitations to Pass Atomic Secrets

Magazine article by Nigel West; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, October 15, 2002

Subjects:

Espionage, Nuclear weapons, Oppenheimer, J. Robert, Russia. Security Council, Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness--A Soviet Spymaster (Book)--Products, Spies--Investigations, Treason

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...physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in providing the...details about the atom bomb. However, Mitrokhin...information about the atom-weapons research...party, but initially Oppenheimer had been reluctant...subsequently convicted atom spy "Fuchs be included...Indeed, under Oppenheimers initiative, Fuchs...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Magazine article by Mihir Bose; History Today, Vol. 58, April 2008

Subjects:

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...his life was that although Oppenheimer headed the Manhattan project, fathering the atom bomb and dramatically changing...to the success of his own atom bomb project. His life also...has changed. In 1924, when Oppenheimer was at Harvard, the universitys...
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Groves and Oppenheimer: The Story of a Partnership

Magazine article by Stanley Goldberg; The Antioch Review, Vol. 53, Fall 1995

Subjects:

Characters and characteristics--Analysis, Characters--Analysis, Groves, Leslie--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Oppenheimer, J. Robert--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Neither general thought that the atom bomb project had much chance...as they thought they did. Oppenheimer At the end of October 1942...intention to appoint J. Robert Oppenheimer to head a new Manhattan Project...measures. Groves had met Oppenheimer in early October; at the time...
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Where's Oppie?

Magazine article by William Lanouette; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 21, Fall 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma (Book)--Book reviews

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...Chevalier to a Soviet agents 1942 attempts to persuade U.S. atom scientists to share military secrets. Chevalier was a Communist...member in the 1930s but appears to have done no more than warn Oppenheimer about the Soviet approach. Yet by repeatedly misstating what...

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Newspaper Articles on: oppenheimer atom

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Nine Men and a Bomb; Atom Bomb Creators Recalled, but Thin on Physics and Facts

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 1, 2003

Subjects:

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Nine men and a bomb; Atom bomb creators recalled, but...participants, men such as Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Leo Szilard and...second example involves Robert Oppenheimer who figures large - and for...VanDeMark informs us that Oppenheimer was the grandson of Jewish...
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Power of the Atom Harnessed for Opera; PROMS 2004

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 23, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Power of the Atom Harnessed for Opera; PROMS 2004. Byline: STEPHEN PETTITT BBC...is rooted in reality. Its about the life of the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, the man who developed the first A-bomb. Last night, with the inform...
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Explore Explosive History Behind Splitting the Atom

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 30, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...multimedia overview of the science behind the splitting of the atom and its repercussions. Atomicarchive.com Site address...under the "Video" section, of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who explains that his teams work during World War II on the...
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Chemical Weapons Plant Behind First Atomic Bomb Aims to Make the Grade

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 15, 2007

Subjects:

Chemical plants, Chemical weapons, Historic sites

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...completing early work on Robert Oppenheimers atomic bomb. Staff who worked on the atom bomb at Rhydymwyn work on were transferred to Oppenheimers research team, the top secret...site for history lessons.": Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project...
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Books: The Bomb: A Life, by Gerard DeGroot, Jonathan Cape, Pounds 18.99

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), July 10, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...described an elemental force freed from its bonds after being chained for billions of years. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was under no illusions about the monster he had unleashed, choosing words from Hindu scripture: I...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: oppenheimer atom

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Nuclear Energy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...NUCLEAR ENERGY the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom and released through fission, fusion, or radioactivity...developed at Los Alamos, N.Mex., under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer (see Manhattan Project ). Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion...

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