While Oppenheimerdepicts many different parts of the famous physicist's life, there is one vital part of the film that is a crux which the movie relies on from the beginning to the end: the feud ...

The story of Oppenheimer’s prewar Communist associations was known to the Government, in its essentials and most of its details (as now stated by the AEC), when Oppenheimer was appointed to head ...

In 1953, at the height of U.S. anticommunist feeling, Oppenheimer was accused of having communist sympathies, and his security clearance was taken away. He had, in fact, had friends who were ...

he was accused of being a traitor who had never outgrown his youthful sympathy for the Communist cause, who possibly even knew of Soviet moles. If Oppenheimer was naive — he once said he had ...

In his new book, Daniel Oppenheimer examines six noted figures who made the rightward journey. In 1954, probably the most feverish period of domestic anti-Communism, where it seemed that each new ...

Oppenheimer is among the greatest Best Picture winners to date, and it's a stunning, explosively powerful historical epic ...

But in 1955 the Atomic Commission cancelled Dr. Oppenheimer's security clearance after he was charged with flirting with Communism and associating with Communists. Ever since, Oppenheimer's ...

Was it reasonable for the U.S. government to be concerned about Oppenheimer’s possible connections with the American Communist Party or the Soviet Union? Why or why not? View the film chapter ...

A hard-bitten military man and a free-spirited physicist combined to build the world’s first nuclear weapon. How often in our relationship-obsessed era do we hear the term “but it works”?