J. Robert Oppenheimer
is one of Clay Jenkinson’s more recent characters. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the
father of the atomic bomb. He was an enormously complex man. After making
important contributions to the science of Quantum Physics, he was chosen by
General Leslie Groves to head up the Manhattan Project in 1942. He performed
this monumental task with great administrative genius. But the world’s first
atomic detonation, at Trinity, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945 awakened in
J. Robert Oppenheimer deep misgivings about his achievement, and about the marriage of
physics and government. Because he was lukewarm on the development of the
hydrogen bomb, and because of some questionable pre-war contacts with American
members of the communist party, J. Robert Oppenheimer was destroyed by the Cold Warriors
in 1954. His security clearance was revoked. He was accused wrongly with being a
traitor. He was vindicated in 1963. Clay Jenkinson considers J. Robert J.Robert Oppenheimer
the epitome of Twentieth Century Man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
is one of Clay Jenkinson’s more recent characters. J. Robert Oppenheimer was the
father of the atomic bomb. He was an enormously complex man. After making
important contributions to the science of Quantum Physics, he was chosen by
General Leslie Groves to head up the Manhattan Project in 1942. He performed
this monumental task with great administrative genius. But the world’s first
atomic detonation, at Trinity, New Mexico, on 16 July 1945 awakened in
J. Robert Oppenheimer deep misgivings about his achievement, and about the marriage of
physics and government. Because he was lukewarm on the development of the
hydrogen bomb, and because of some questionable pre-war contacts with American
members of the communist party, J. Robert Oppenheimer was destroyed by the Cold Warriors
in 1954. His security clearance was revoked. He was accused wrongly with being a
traitor. He was vindicated in 1963. Clay Jenkinson considers J. Robert J.Robert Oppenheimer
the epitome of Twentieth Century Man.