The Assassination of Louis Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atomic Bomb

The national security establishment is appalled that the father of the atomic bomb is coming out in public giving speeches against these weapons. Louis Strong, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, played by Robert Downey Jr., was bent on building more and bigger bombs than the Russians. Meeting behind closed doors on Atomic Energy Commission's security panel heard evidence some of it gathered from illegal wiretaps of Oppenheimer's Communist past. They voted against him. It's a terrible tragedy because here America's foremost scientist, a great public intellectual, is put on trial and stripped of his security clearance and then humiliated.