Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (142 page)

576
. ‘strongly built’: ibid.

576
. ‘I remember’: ibid., 311

577
. ‘I don’t think you fellows’: Stern (1971), 190

577
. ‘Lee DuBridge and I are through’: Hershberg (1993), 601

577
. ‘he is very much concerned’: FBI San Francisco office to JEH, 5.4.1952, JRO FBI file

577
. ‘believed it would be extremely wise’: FBI report by L. Hoyt McGuire, Chicago office, 9.5.1952, JRO FBI file

578
. ‘worked out a plan’: Goodchild (1980), 213

578
. ‘magnificent’: ITMO, 96

578
. ‘deep sense of personal regret’: ibid.

578
. ‘lasting and immensely valuable’: ibid., 97

580
. ‘technical, military, and economic questions’: ITMO, 598

580
. ‘We decided we would’: ibid.

581
. ‘ZORC’: ibid., 750

581
. ‘in order to achieve world peace’: ibid., 749

581
. ‘the background’: ibid., 750

581
. ‘Griggs. I should say’: ibid., 763

581
. announced on 28 April 1952: see
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, June 1952, 133. For a detailed account of this panel, see Bernstein (1989)

582
. ‘would not require inspection and control’: Bernstein (1989), 141

582
. ‘point of no return’: ibid., 143

582
. ‘is irrevocably committed’: ibid., 143–4

583
. ‘whose destructive and retaliatory power’: quoted Wells (1981), 41

583
. ‘The most reasonable explanation’: ibid., 42

583
. ‘man for man’:
Life
, 19 May 1952, 151

583
. ‘of means to hit’: ibid.

583
. ‘Today’: ibid., 152

584
. the fallout from the test: see Bernstein (1989), 143

584
. on 9 October: ibid., 148

584
. ‘felt that any such idea’: ibid., 148–9

584
. ‘would certainly be pleased’: Rhodes (1996), 498

585
. the first Ulam–Teller hydrogen bomb: the description that follows is based on that given in Rhodes (1996), Chapter 24

585
. ‘You would swear’: ibid., 508

585
. ‘It’s a boy’: ibid., 511

585
. ‘Some people in the Air Force’: B & S, 451

586
. ‘As we sat’: Teller (2001), 352

586
. ‘I assured him’: ibid., 353

586
. ‘had not thought’: ibid.

586
. ‘was so huge’: ibid.

587
. ‘our commitment’: Bernstein (1989), 154

587
. five main proposals: ibid.

587
. ‘Atomic Weapons and American Policy’: Oppenheimer (1955), 61–77

587
. ‘became very vividly and painfully aware’: ITMO, 95

587
. ‘the bright light’: Oppenheimer (1955), 61

587
. ‘Openness’: ibid., 62

588
. ‘The rule for the atom’: ibid., 63

588
. ‘It is easy to say’: ibid.

588
. ‘It is my opinion’: ibid., 65

588
. ‘likely to be small comfort’: ibid.

588
. ‘our twenty-thousandth bomb’: ibid., 66

588
. ‘a rather rigid commitment’: ibid.

588
. ‘The prevailing view’: ibid., 68

589
. ‘We need strength’: ibid., 69

589
. ‘We do not operate well’: ibid., 70

589
. ‘It must be disturbing’: ibid.

589
. ‘I am not convinced’: see ‘The Soviet Bombs: Mr Truman’s Doubts’,
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, March 1953, 43–5

589
. ‘It must be shocking’: Oppenheimer (1955), 70–1

589
. ‘problematical’:
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, March 1953, 43

589
. ‘does not prove’: ibid.

590
. ‘high officer of the Air Defense Command’: Oppenheimer (1955), 71

590
. ‘We need to be clear’: ibid., 77

590
. ‘The Hidden Struggle for the H-bomb’:
Fortune
, May 1953, 109, 110, 230

590
. ‘A life and death struggle’: ibid., 109

590
. ‘no confidence’: ibid.

591
. ‘another nasty and obviously inspired article’: quoted Stern (1971), 201

591
. ‘ZORC takes up the fight’:
Fortune
, May 1953, 110

591
. ‘calling in Oppenheimer’: L.B. Nichols to Tolson, 11.5.1953, JRO FBI file

592
. Cohn and McCarthy visited J. Edgar Hoover: JEH, memo dated 19.5.1953, JRO FBI file

592
. ‘a great deal of preliminary spade work’: ibid.

592
. ‘The McCarthy committee’: McMillan (2005), 170

592
. ‘still concerned’: D.M. Ladd to JEH, 25.5.1953, JRO FBI file

592
. ‘could not do the job’: D.M. Ladd to A.H. Belmont, 5.6.1953, JRO FBI file

592
. ‘did not completely trust’: B & S, 467

593
. ‘was perhaps’: Hewlett and Holl (1989), 53

593
. ‘It was this contract’: ibid.

593
. ‘reluctantly agreed’: D.M. Ladd to A.H. Belmont, 5.6.1953, JRO FBI file

594
. ‘Dissenter’s Return’:
Time
, 6 July 1953

594
. ‘Joe 4’: see Rhodes (1996), 524–5

594
. ‘the opposition to present US policy’:
Life
, 7 September 1953, 32

595
. Eisenhower’s statement:
Life
, 19 October 1953, 38

595
. ‘US Atom Boss Lewis Strauss’:
Time
, 21 September 1953

596
. NSC 162/2: the entire document is available online at:
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-162–2.pdf

596
. ‘primary threat’: NSC 162/2, 1

596
. ‘The capability of the USSR’: ibid., 2

596
. ‘a strong military posture’: ibid., 5

597
. given Oppenheimer’s AEC security file: see B & S, 473

597
. ‘The purpose of this letter’: Pais (2006), 199

598
. ‘In April 1942’: ibid.

598
. ‘FBI report on vast spy ring’: quoted in memo from W.A. Branigan to A.H. Belmont, 18.11.1953, JRO FBI file

598
. ‘In addition’: ibid.

598
. ‘whining, whimpering appeasement’: Reeves (1997), 530

599
. ‘He moves about’:
Sunday Express
, 15 November 1953

599
. ‘He is said’:
The Observer
, 22 November 1953

599
. ‘Something different’:
The Economist
, 1 January 1955

599
. ‘what there is new’: Oppenheimer (1954), dust-jacket blurb

599
. ‘at finding’:
The Economist
, 1 January 1955

600
. ‘For us as for all men’: ibid., 98

600
. ‘rhetorically evocative’: Pais (2006), 286

600
. ‘the story of sub-nuclear matter’: Oppenheimer (1954), 32–3

601
. ‘It seems rather unlikely’: ibid., 81

601
. ‘It was a happy reunion’: Chevalier (1965), 86

601
. ‘to an extraordinary dialogue’: ibid., 88

601
. ‘It is very sad’: ibid.

601
. ‘it might be a good idea’: B & S, 481

602
. ‘raise questions’: ITMO, 6

602
. ‘Accordingly’: ibid.

602
. went to see Joe Volpe: B & S, 483

603
. ‘would mean that I accept’: ITMO, 22

603
. ‘hereby directed’: Stern (1971), 236

603
. ‘in view of the fact’: Hewlett and Holl (1989), 81

603
. ‘the Bureau’s technical coverage’: Goodchild (1980), 227

603
. ‘The fact’: Pais (2006), 204

604
. ‘whitewash Oppenheimer’: Goodchild (1980), 229

604
. ‘all over town’: B & S, 490

604
. chaired its opening session: Bernstein (2004), 94

604
. ‘leading role’: ibid.

604
. ‘to record’: ibid.

604
. ‘My thesis adviser’: ibid., 94–5

604
. ‘how unusually quiet’: Pais (2006), 122

604
. ‘I’m sorry to hear’:
Life
, 13 December 1963, 94

604
. ‘I suppose, I hope’: Goodchild (1980), 229

605
. ‘I would testify’: Teller (2001), 374

605
. ‘that I finally concluded’: Stern (1971), 516

605
. ‘Oppenheimer was a Communist’: Goodchild (1980), 230

605
. ‘My theory’: ibid., 231

605
. ‘We thought’: ibid.

606
. ‘dredging up’: ibid., 229

606
. ‘requires the suspension’: ITMO, 3

607
. ‘the ideological struggle’: Green (1977), 14

607
. ‘My wife’: Plutarch,
Life of Caesar
, 10.6

607
. ‘if there was any’: Green (1977), 14–15

607
. ‘it was unfair’: ibid., 15

607
. ‘and others’: ibid.

607
. ‘widely interpreted’: ibid.

607
. ‘exceeds the minimum standards’: quoted ibid.

607
. ‘My knowledge’: ibid., 60

608
. ‘cannot be fairly understood’: ITMO, 7

609
. ‘flashes of fire’:
Life
, 29 March 1954, 17

609
. ‘like the sound’: ibid., 19

609
. ‘First Casualties of the H-Bomb’: ibid., 17

609
. ‘Is the strategy of retaliation’:
Life
, 12 April 1954, 38

609
. ‘out of the question’: B & S, 496

609
. ‘In preparing this letter’: ITMO, 20

610
. ‘The records printed’: Pharr Davis (1969), 19

610
. more of a farce: Pais (2006), 268

610
. ‘this proceeding’: ITMO, 20

611
. ‘Doctor’: ibid., 129

611
. ‘One day’: ibid., 130

611
. ‘I invented a cock-and-bull story’: ibid., 137

611
. ‘Robb. Did you tell Pash the truth’: ibid.

612
. ‘Isn’t it a fair statement’: ibid., 149

612
. ‘Robb. You spent the night with her, didn’t you?’: ibid., 154

613
. ‘I’ve just seen’: Goodchild (1980), 242

613
. ‘General’: ITMO, 171

613
. ‘I would not clear Dr Oppenheimer’: ibid.

613
. ‘Robb. He [de Silva] was certainly more of a professional’: ibid., 272

614
. ‘I don’t believe’: ibid., 280

614
. ‘Robb. Colonel Lansdale’: ibid.

615
. ‘Dr Conant, if you had been approached’: ibid., 393

615
. ‘When you did report it’: ibid., 394

615
. ‘I never hid my opinion’: ibid., 468

615
. ‘McCarthy has few partisans’: Pais (2006), 219

616
. ‘Silently and impassively’:
Life
, 26 April 1954, 35

616
. ‘Whatever the truth of the charges’: ibid., 38

616
. ‘astounding’: ITMO, 660

616
. ‘not helpful to national defense’: ibid., 684

616
. ‘corroborative testimony’: ibid., 802

616
. ‘I have always assumed’: ibid., 710

616
. ‘In a great number of cases’: ibid.

617
. ‘Do you feel’: ibid., 726

617
. ‘Robb. As far as you know’: ibid., 737

618
. ‘Gray. Mr McCloy’: ibid., 739

619
. ‘Yes, I would’: ibid., 823

619
. ‘I would say to you’: ibid., 839

619
. ‘In the Commission’s own view’: ibid., 973

619
. ‘But this man’: ibid., 990

619
. ‘he will never be through’: B & S, 538

620
. ‘very depressed’: ibid.

620
. ‘We have’: Polenberg (2002), 362

620
. ‘We have, however’: ibid.

620
. ‘that Dr Oppenheimer’s continuing conduct’: ibid.

620
. ‘a susceptibility’: ibid.

620
. ‘We find’: ibid.

620
. ‘less than candid’: ibid.

620
. ‘To deny him clearance now’: ibid., 364

621
. ‘did not hinder’: ibid., 365

621
. ‘His witnesses’: ibid.

621
. ‘I would like to add’: ibid.

621
. ‘closely associated’:
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, May 1954, 191

621
. ‘stands in such contrast’: Polenberg (2002), 366

621
. ‘considered in the context’: ibid., 370

622
. ‘The record contains no direct evidence’: ibid., 372

622
. ‘is not based’: ibid., 375

622
. ‘the evidence establishes’: ibid., 376

622
. ‘if his present story is true’: ibid., 373

622
. ‘. . . it is difficult to conclude’: ibid.

623
. ‘completely loyal’: ibid., 389

623
. ‘inexcusable’: ibid., 391

625
. ‘repulsive’: Chevalier (1965), 89

625
. ‘Oppie confesse: “J’étais un idiot.”’: ibid., 97–8

625
. ‘The one who had invented’: ibid., 100–1

625
. ‘In the list of witnesses’:
Time
, 28 June 1954

626
. ‘The majority’: ibid.

626
. ‘Dear Robert’: Chevalier (1965), 102

626
. ‘Dear Haakon’: JRO to HC, 12.7.1954, JRO papers, LOC

626
. ‘This was not’: Chevalier (1965), 105–6

627
. ‘hoping – without believing’: ibid., 106

627
. ‘For the subjective observer’: ibid., 107

628
. ‘on a desperately needed rest’: ibid., 108