The evidence of Oppenheimer’s membership in the Communist Party in the 1930s is ‘overwhelming,’ but it doesn’t mean he was a spy, says a retired Stanford history professor.
J. Robert Oppenheimer may have gone to his grave holding onto a painful secret. He repeatedly denied to the U.S. government that he joined the Communist Party while teaching physics at UC Berkeley, but some historians now say “overwhelming” evidence shows that he was a member and opened himself up to perjury charges by lying about it.
published shortly before the July 21 release of “Oppenheimer.” “The evidence of such CP membership is overwhelming, and that means he also committed perjury on at least a few occasions over a number of years.” If Oppenheimer hid this secret, it could explain why he, “a forceful, charismatic” person, “fell apart” when confronted about his part membership in a hostile 1954 hearing before the Atomic Energy Commission, Bernstein told this news organization. It could also explain why he thereafter retreated from policy debates about protecting the world from the nuclear weapons he and the United States helped to create.
Bernstein said it’s not clear whether Oppenheimer kept quiet about his party membership in 1943 because it could have disqualified him from the Manhattan Project. But after that, “he had to stick to his story because he had signed affidavits repeatedly that he had not been a communist,” Bernstein said.
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