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Oppenheimer’s inconvenient truth: He was a secret Communist, some historians say

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

US nuclear physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967), director of the Los Alamos atomic laboratory, testifying before the Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy. Oppenheimer, who directed the Manhattan Project that developed the first atom bomb, regretted his participation in the program in his later years. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
US nuclear physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967), director of the Los Alamos atomic laboratory, testifying before the Special Senate Committee on Atomic Energy. Oppenheimer, who directed the Manhattan Project that developed the first atom bomb, regretted his participation in the program in his later years. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
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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.

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