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Tables of Contents for In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction: ``All the Evil of the 'Times''
xv
The Setting and the Participants
xxix
PART I THE HEARING
Monday, April 12
3
32
``The Commission has no other recourse...but to suspend your clearance until the matter has been resolved''
3
7
``The items of so-called derogatory information...cannot be fairly understood except in the context of my life and my work''
10
19
``An inquiry and not a trial''
29
1
``Exploding one of these things as a firecracker over a desert''
30
5
Tuesday, April 13
35
14
``Strictly confidential''
35
3
``Those who are not cleared...will necessarily be excused''
38
3
``When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it''
41
8
Wednesday, April 14
49
26
``Both an older brother and in some ways perhaps...a father''
49
4
``In the case of a brother you don't make tests''
53
8
``Then I invented a Cock-and-bull Story''
61
11
``You spent the night with her, didn't you?''
72
3
Thursday, April 15
75
19
``I would not clear Dr. Oppenheimer today''
75
6
``One can be mistaken about anything''
81
4
``Your memory is not refreshed by what I read you?'' ``No, on the whole it is confused by it''
85
8
``Of the known leakages of information, Fuchs is by far the most grave''
93
1
Friday, April 16
94
26
``I would have done anything that I was asked to do...if I had thought it was technically feasible''
94
5
``I am not sure the miserable thing will work...[but it] would be folly to oppose the exploration of this weapon''
99
9
``The program in 1951 was technically so sweet that you could not argue about that''
108
3
``We kept him under surveillance whenever he left the project. We opened his mail. We did all sorts of nasty things''
111
9
Monday, April 19
120
19
``A very human man, a sensitive man,...a man of complete integrity''
120
6
``Only when the bomb dropped on Japan,...did we start thinking about the moral implications''
126
13
Tuesday, April 20
139
27
``It is only the great sinners who become the great saints''
139
9
``Dr. Oppenheimer's appraisal of the Russian menace...was hard headed, realistic, and thoroughly anti-Soviet''
148
5
``My opinion...was that one should try to outlaw the thing before it was born''
153
3
``Here is a man of good character, integrity, and of loyalty to his country''
156
10
Wednesday, April 21
166
13
``He is a consultant, and if you don't want to consult the guy, you don't consult him period....We have an A-bomb...* * * and what more do you want, mermaids?''
166
13
Thursday, April 22
179
15
``A scientist wants to know. He wants to know correctly and truthfully and precisely''
179
6
``I don't like to see women and children killed wholesale because the male element of the human race are so stupid that they can't...keep out of war''
185
3
``Dr. Oppenheimer...was a natural and 'respected and at all times a loved leader''
188
6
Friday, April 23
194
13
``Mr. Chairman, unless ordered to do so by the board, we shall not disclose to Mr. Garrison in advance the names of the witnesses we contemplate calling''
194
5
``Here is a man who is being pilloried because he had strong opinions, and had the temerity to express them''
199
8
Monday, April 26
207
21
``I was emotionally involved in the Spanish cause''
207
9
``I think there is a great deal of difference between being a Communist in 1935 and being a Communist in 1954''
216
5
``I am afraid that wars are evil....But the question of morality...you do not have time for when you are to think how you fight''
221
4
``Dr. Oppenheimer's individual contribution was the greatest of any member of the General Advisory Committee''
225
3
Tuesday, April 27
228
16
``All of us in the war years...got suddenly in contact with a universe we had not known before...; we suddenly were dealing with something with which one could blow up the world''
228
9
``I kept turning over in my mind...what was in Oppenheimer that gave him such tremendous power over these men''
237
7
Wednesday, April 28
244
21
``My feeling is that the masters in the Kremlin cannot risk the loss of their base. This base is vulnerable only to attack by air power''
244
5
``I would not rate Dr. Oppenheimer's importance in this field very high for the rather personal reason...that I have disagreed with a good many of his important positions''
249
3
``I feel that I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better, and therefore trust I more''
252
13
Thursday, April 29
265
18
``He used the graphic expression like two scorpions in a bottle, that each could destroy the other''
265
6
``ZORC are the letters applied by a member of this group to the four people: Z is for Zacharias, O for Oppenheimer, R for Rabi, and C for Charlie Lauritsen''
271
5
``I realized that the program that we were planning to start was not one that the top man in the scientific department of the AEC wanted to have done''
276
7
Friday, April 30
283
26
``The adversary process which we seem to be engaged in should be carried out to the fullest extent''
289
2
``Dr. Oppenheimer knew the name of the man, and it was his duty to report it to me''
291
7
``More probably than not, J. Robert Oppenheimer is an agent of the Soviet Union''
298
11
Monday, May 3
309
18
``I wish I could explain to you better why I falsified and fabricated''
311
16
Tuesday, May 4
327
6
``I left the Communist Party. I did not leave my past, the friendships, just like that''
327
6
Wednesday, May 5
333
12
``I felt, perhaps quite strongly, that having played an active part in promoting a revolution in warfare, I needed to be as responsible as I could with regard to what came of this revolution''
333
12
Thursday, May 6
345
10
``His life has been an open book''
346
9
PART II THE DECISION
The Personnel Security Board Reports, May 27
355
11
``We have...been unable to arrive at the conclusion that it would be clearly consistent with the security interests of the United States to reinstate Dr. Oppenheimer's clearance''
355
7
``Our failure to clear Dr. Oppenheimer will be a black mark on the escutcheon of our country''
362
4
Lloyd K. Garrison's Reply to Kenneth D. Nichols, June 1
366
5
``How can this be?''
366
5
Kenneth D. Nichols's Recommendations to the AEC, June 12
371
5
``I have given consideration to the nature of the cold war...and the horrible prospects of hydrogen bomb warfare if all-out war should be forced upon us''
371
5
Publishing the Transcript, June 13-15
376
2
Decision and Opinions of the AEC, June 29
378
17
``We find Dr. Oppenheimer is not entitled to the continued confidence of the Government...because of the proof of fundamental defects in his character'''
378
5
``This matter certainly reflects the difficult times in which we live''
383
2
``The General Manager has arrived at the only possible conclusion available to a reasonable and prudent man''
385
1
``Dr. Oppenheimer failed the test....He was disloyal''
386
2
``There is no indication in the entire record that Dr. Oppenheimer has ever divulged any secret information''
388
7
Conclusion: ``An Abuse of the Power of the State''
395
4
Suggested Reading
399
2
Index
401