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On December 16, 2022, Jennifer Granholm, the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy (DOE) – the successor organization to the AEC – vacated the 1954 revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance. [126] Her statement said Oppenheimer's clearance was revoked "through a flawed process that violated the Commission's own regulations.
An authority on explosions, Evans served as a consultant as well as expert witness on lawsuits related to explosions. [2] In 1954 Evans served as one of three panel members at the security clearance hearing of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was the only member who voted to allow Oppenheimer to retain his security clearance.
On December 21, 1953, Strauss told Oppenheimer that his security clearance had been suspended, pending resolution of a series of charges outlined in a letter, and discussed his resigning by way of requesting termination of his consulting contract with the AEC. [246] Oppenheimer chose not to resign and requested a hearing instead. [247]
In the end, Strauss ensured that Oppenheimer's security clearances are revoked—simply to embarrass him. The hearing ended just a day before the clearances were set to expire regardless, and his ...
[51] [52] Those in the U.S. government who had long held suspicions about Oppenheimer's judgment and loyalties used these stances as additional fuel, and by the end of 1953 the wheels were in motion that would lead to the Oppenheimer security hearings the following year and the resultant loss of Oppenheimer's security clearance.
Kitty (Blunt) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (Murphy) sit through his security hearing in Christopher Nolan’s film. Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures She died in 1978 at the age of 62.
In 1954, Strauss pushed for the revocation of Oppenheimer's security clearance during the Oppenheimer security hearing. Rami Malek as David Hill. Oppenheimer (Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures)
[210] The loss of his security clearance ended Oppenheimer's role in government and policy. [211] Oppenheimer returned to his directorship at the Institute of Advanced Studies, but Strauss, who was still on the board of trustees there, attempted to have him dismissed. [212] However, in October 1954, the board voted to keep Oppenheimer on. [213]
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