How Lewis Strauss Orchestrated Robert Oppenheimer’s Downfall 

Oppenheimer, the movie, was, as I said above, a good movie, but not a great one. It suggested all sorts of historical and scientific questions it didn’t even try to answer. But one question it did answer was about the increasingly antagonistic relationship between Oppenheimer, the quantum physics genius, and Lewis Strauss, an amateur physicist who used his fortune and influence to become one of America’s most important atomic-energy advisors during the Cold War.

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