I. Introduction

• •a scientist and a moral decision: the atomic bomb



• •the question of "loyalty" in cold war America

II. Oppenheimer's career

• •Youth



• •academic career (1929-1942)



• •the Manhattan Project (1942-1945)
• •Albert Einstein and President Roosevelt
• •the Los Alamos, NM, laboratory
• •the "Trinity" test (July 16, 1945)
• •Should the bomb be used?



• •Postwar years
• •Acheson-Lilienthal Report (1945)
• •General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946-1952)
• •Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1947-1963)
• •Edward Teller and the Hydrogen Bomb (1949-1953)
• •the Personnel Security Board of the Atomic Energy Commission (1954)
• •Enrico Fermi Prize (1963)

III. Conclusion

• •Oppenheimer's politics and personality



• •Oppenheimer and the postwar national security state (the second Red Scare)