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'''Julius<ref>Although Oppenheimer always insisted that the initial J. in his name stood for "nothing" (Jeremy Bernstein, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kajvAAAAMAAJ Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma]'' [Ivan R. Dee, 2004] ISBN 1566635691, p. x), his birth certificate identifies him as "Julius Robert Oppenheimer." [[#refPK|Pais, Crease 2006]]: 355</ref> Robert Oppenheimer''' (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], one of four laboratories<ref>The others were the [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/fermi.html Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago], under [http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Compton/Compton.html Arthur Compton];[https://web.archive.org/web/20130906064529/http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/communications/graphite-reactor Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tennessee], under [http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter1.shtml Martin Whitaker]; and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111023190523/http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/WorldWarIIEra Hanford Engineer Works] in Hanford, Washington, under Crawford Greenewalt. S. L. Sanger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tgjuoe2W4BoC Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford]'' (Continuing Education Press, 1995) ISBN 0876781156, p. 3. Cf. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527133244/http://www.energy.gov/media/Manhattan_Project_Map.pdf Manhattan Project Map], United States Department of Energy</ref> involved in the [[Manhattan Project]] to develop the first [[atomic bomb]]. He was also a secret member of the [[Communist Party]].<ref>Alexander Vassiliev, tr. Philip Redko, Yellow notebook #1 (Cold War International History Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), [https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Yellow_Notebook_No._1_Original.pdf orig.], PDF p. 6; [https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Yellow_Notebook_No.1_Translated.pdf trans.], p. 10. Cf. [[#refHaynes08|Haynes 2008]]: 120; [[#refHKV09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 49</ref>

'''Julius<ref>Although Oppenheimer always insisted that the initial J. in his name stood for "nothing" (Jeremy Bernstein, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=kajvAAAAMAAJ Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma]'' [Ivan R. Dee, 2004] ISBN 1566635691, p. x), his birth certificate identifies him as "Julius Robert Oppenheimer." [[#refPK|Pais, Crease 2006]]: 355</ref> Robert Oppenheimer''' (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and director of the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], one of four laboratories<ref>The others were the [http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/fermi.html Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago], under [http://www.aip.org/history/gap/Compton/Compton.html Arthur Compton];[https://web.archive.org/web/20130906064529/http://www.ornl.gov/ornl/news/communications/graphite-reactor Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tennessee], under [http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter1.shtml Martin Whitaker]; and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111023190523/http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/WorldWarIIEra Hanford Engineer Works] in Hanford, Washington, under Crawford Greenewalt. S. L. Sanger, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=tgjuoe2W4BoC Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford]'' (Continuing Education Press, 1995) ISBN 0876781156, p. 3. Cf. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100527133244/http://www.energy.gov/media/Manhattan_Project_Map.pdf Manhattan Project Map], United States Department of Energy</ref> involved in the [[Manhattan Project]] to develop the first [[atomic bomb]]. He was also a secret member of the [[Communist Party]].<ref>Alexander Vassiliev, tr. Philip Redko, Yellow notebook #1 (Cold War International History Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), [https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Yellow_Notebook_No._1_Original.pdf orig.], PDF p. 6; [https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Yellow_Notebook_No.1_Translated.pdf trans.], p. 10. Cf. [[#refHaynes08|Haynes 2008]]: 120; [[#refHKV09|Haynes, Klehr, Vassiliev 2009]]: 49</ref>

Like other [[liberal]]s, Oppenheimer was not as smart as he wanted to be:  he was rejected by [[Ernest Rutherford]] as a student, and was not at the high level of [[Enrico Fermi]], [[John von Neumann]], or [[Robert Dicke]]. Like a fellow communist later on, former [[CIA]] director [[John Brennan]], Oppenheimer's security clearance was permanently revoked by presidential directive for [[colluding]] with the [[KGB]] and sparking the [[Cold War]] nuclear arms race.  In December 2022, [[Leftist]]s persuaded [[Biden]] to reinstate Oppenheimer's security clearance in a political stunt more than 55 years after he died.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/j-robert-oppenheimer-atomic-bomb-security-clearance</ref>

Like other [[liberal]]s, Oppenheimer was not as smart as he wanted to be:  he was rejected by [[Ernest Rutherford]] as a student, and was not at the high level of [[Enrico Fermi]], [[John von Neumann]], or [[Robert Dicke]]. Like a fellow communist later on, former [[CIA]] director [[John Brennan]], Oppenheimer's security clearance was permanently revoked by presidential directive for [[colluding]] with the [[KGB]] and sparking the [[Cold War]] nuclear arms race.  In December 2022, [[Leftist]]s persuaded [[Biden]] to reinstate Oppenheimer's security clearance in a political stunt more than 55 years after he died.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/17/j-robert-oppenheimer-atomic-bomb-security-clearance</ref>

[[Leftist]] [[Hollywood]] produced a $100 million "[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]]" movie for release in 2023 that over-promotes, and is overly sympathetic to, Oppenheimer.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15398776/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_4</ref>

[[Leftist]] [[Hollywood]] produced a $100 million "[[Oppenheimer (film)|Oppenheimer]]" movie for release in 2023 that over-promotes, and is overly sympathetic to, Oppenheimer.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15398776/?ref_=tt_sims_tt_i_4</ref> The movie's intrigue about the [[Deep State]] may be attracting the larger-than-expected audience.

== Early life ==

== Early life ==

Oppenheimer was born in [[New York]] in 1904,<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 7 (PDF 17)</ref> the eldest son of Julius and Ella (née Freedman) Oppenheimer. His father was a wealthy textile importer who had immigrated from [[Germany]] in 1895, his mother a scion of [[Philadelphia]] society who had studied painting in Paris.<ref>[http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/oppenheimer.shtml The Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945], Los Alamos National Laboratory</ref> They collected original art, including a Renoir and three Van Goghs; they also owned a 40-foot yacht,<ref>[[#refPK06|Pais, Crease 2006]]: 4</ref> and his father gave him his own 27-foot sloop.<ref>[[#refRhodes86|Rhodes 1986]]: 123</ref> Precocious but socially backward, Oppenheimer began collecting minerals at age five, was elected to the New York Minerological Club at eleven,<ref>[http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/oppenheimer.shtml The Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945], Los Alamos National Laboratory</ref> and delivered his first paper there at age 12.<ref>Peter Goodchild, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A4MgAQAAIAAJ J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds]'' (Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1985) ISBN 0880640219, p. 11</ref> His shy awkwardness earned him the nickname "Booby" Oppenheimer among his peers; he was bullied, culminating in being locked naked in an icehouse overnight as retribution for alleged tattling.<ref>[[#refSW95|Smith, Weiner 1995]]: 4</ref>

Oppenheimer was born in [[New York]] in 1904,<ref>[[#refAECH|AEC Hearing]]: 7 (PDF 17)</ref> the eldest son of Julius and Ella (née Freedman) Oppenheimer. His father was a wealthy textile importer who had immigrated from [[Germany]] in 1895, his mother a scion of [[Philadelphia]] society who had studied painting in Paris.<ref>[http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/oppenheimer.shtml The Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945], Los Alamos National Laboratory</ref> They collected original art, including a Renoir and three Van Goghs; they also owned a 40-foot yacht,<ref>[[#refPK06|Pais, Crease 2006]]: 4</ref> and his father gave him his own 27-foot sloop.<ref>[[#refRhodes86|Rhodes 1986]]: 123</ref> Precocious but socially backward, Oppenheimer began collecting minerals at age five, was elected to the New York Minerological Club at eleven,<ref>[http://www.lanl.gov/history/people/oppenheimer.shtml The Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945], Los Alamos National Laboratory</ref> and delivered his first paper there at age 12.<ref>Peter Goodchild, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A4MgAQAAIAAJ J. Robert Oppenheimer: Shatterer of Worlds]'' (Fromm International Pub. Corp., 1985) ISBN 0880640219, p. 11</ref> His shy awkwardness earned him the nickname "Booby" Oppenheimer among his peers; he was bullied, culminating in being locked naked in an icehouse overnight as retribution for alleged tattling.<ref>[[#refSW95|Smith, Weiner 1995]]: 4</ref>