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| Program Number | 187 |
| Title | The Oppenheimer Case |
| PBS Number | - |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Stern, Philip M. - journalist, sometime official of the Democratic National
Committee, author of The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial
| | Taped on | Jan 15, 1970 (New York City, NY) |
| Broadcast Date | - |
| Duration | 50 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
| Summary | Mr. Stern believes (a) that J. Robert Oppenheimer got a raw deal, and (b) that our
government harmed rather than helped our security by denying itself his services. A rich
discussion starting with the security investigations of the early Fifties, but moving back to
World War II and the development of the hydrogen bomb, and forward to the current
"blacklisting of scientists by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare." Mr.
Stern cites the wartime case of Edward Teller, who was almost denied a security clearance because he had relatives in Nazi Germany; Mr. Buckley cites the case of Suez
in 1956, where the Soviets found out about the proposed Israeli-French-British invasion
through the efforts of one of "these individuals that you simply dismiss as ciphers [but
who] are people who change events." PS: "After World War II, when our armies went
back in, they tried to find out where the Germans were in their atomic research, and they
found that they were two years, at least, behind us, and one scientist tried to find out why.
And a cardinal reason was that Germany had done just what we did in the Oppenheimer
case ... They had politicalized their science." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
Science and state.
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