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Episode 538: The Manhattan Project Part VI - The Greatest Generation

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The History of Robert Oppenheimer

A four-week security hearing was held in 1954 to determine whether Oppenheimer should be allowed to keep his security clearance. By a vote of two to one Oppenheimer was pushed out of the government atomic research game. In 1963 JFK presented Oppenheimer with the Enrico Fermi award for scientific excellence nice and there's your fucking trophy Yeah, you know trophies are a big deal The funny thing though is that they the historians think that had it not been for the red scare It would have been the Robert Oppenheimer award for scientific You probably would have been president the United States of Merp.

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