Transcript of 1954 Oppenheimer Hearing Declassified in Full

Posted on Oct.06, 2014 in Declassification, Dept of Energy, History, Nuclear Weapons by Steven Aftergood

The transcript of the momentous 1954 Atomic Energy Commission hearing that led the AEC to revoke the security clearance of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had led the Manhattan Project to produce the first atomic bomb, has now been declassified in full by the Department of Energy. “The Department of Energy has re-reviewed the original transcript and is making available to the public, for the first time, the full text of the transcript in […]http://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2014/10/oppenheimer-declass/