Senators urge vindication for Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Four U.S. senators signed a letter to President Biden on June 16 urging the exoneration of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who in 1954 was the government’s top atomic physicist when he came under suspicion as a Soviet spy.

The big picture: The letter asks Biden to issue an executive order to rescind the Atomic Energy Commission’s (AEC) characterization of Oppenheimer as "untrustworthy and unfit to serve his country."

The letter is signed by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Jeffrey Merkley (D-Ore.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.).

Flashback: After 19 days of secret hearings in April and May of 1954, the AEC revoked Oppenheimer's security clearance, per the New York Times.

60 years later in 2014 the Department of Energy released declassified transcripts of the AEC security board’s hearings, which offered "no damning evidence against him," per the NYT.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senators-urge-vindication-dr-j-182251147.html

[ProfessorGAC]

1. 67 Years Overdue

Oppenheimer was screwed by that ridiculous witch hunt.
This was an actual witch hunt, seeking out imaginary enemies, not the kind about which TFG bleated.

[erronis]

6. Same tricks now as then played by the same type of actors (Cohn, etc.)

It's always accuse the opposition of what you are planning to do. Stain them first so your crimes won't seem so important.

There are no totally virtuous people who worked in the government in the offensive weapons organizations during the wars who are blameless. But most of them wanted to hasten the end of the wars, not prolong the cycles of death.

The atomic bomb was arguably one of the most cataclysmic events in modern warfare and killed hundreds of thousands. But nowhere as many as were killed by the carpet bombing of whole cities with incendiaries, chemicals, and sometimes biologic agents.

[elleng]

2. and Alan Turing

- Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alan_Turing
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS (/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher,​ ...

[NH Ethylene]

3. I'm glad to hear this.

His memory is stained enough by being the "father of the atomic bomb", a burden that seemed to weigh heavily on him in his later years.

His words here give me chills each time I hear them, ending with "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[Grins]

4. Remind me: Who was President in 1954?

And who was in the Senate calling George C. Marshall a traitor? And what was his party?

Has much changed with these shits?

[madaboutharry]

5. I am currently reading "American Prometheus

The Triumph And Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”

It is an engrossing and wonderful book. His genius was unbounded. It is a long book and it will be a while until I finish it, but I recommend it to anyone interested in his life.