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 ...

It was at Stanford that Tatlock began writing for the Western Worker, the Communist Party USA's West Coast newspaper. Despite being a skeptic in general, as evidenced in Oppenheimer, Tatlock was a ...