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Oppenheimer: “destroyer of worlds”

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The Life and Times of Robert Oppenheimer

As a young man in the 1920s, Robert Oppenheimer was rather apolitical. He met Jean Tatlock, a young woman who was studying to become a psychiatrist. She railed against him for not becoming more politically engaged. By 1954, his FBI file had grown to be about 8,000 pages.

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