Except when opposing the "policy" of national survival, which was what the decision to build the super really was.
Although Oppie may not have been an outright Soviet agent, he most certainly was politically naive, a common trait of scientifically brilliant academics. Thus, he was (and should have been) monitored very carefully.
How do the authors explain away the Oppenhiemer Tribute at the Moscow Military Museum?
Interesting article. Too bad with all the focus on Oppenheimer the FBI/OSS missed Claus Fuchs entirely.
Plus:
RE: After a series of academic successes at Harvard College, he went to England's Cambridge University in 1925 to study physics, but suffered a breakdown. Its most serious manifestation was poisoning his tutor's apple, an act that almost got him charged with attempted murder.
I would reckon that a criminal mind, with vast intelligence, would have been capable of sophisticated covert operations and evasion of FBI surveillance. I think he was a mole, and that he played a key role, perhaps THE key role, in giving the Soviets the bomb.
I have read the book Venona secrets. And I do not believe he was a spy.
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
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