Where Angels Fear to Tread
Away back before 1954, Robert Oppenheimer was a famous man. For more than ten years he had been well known as a physicist and a philosopher of science, and he was highly esteemed throughout the world. It was not, however, until it was established by a security panel of the Atomic Energy Commission that Dr. Oppenheimer had a) contributed substantially to the Communist Party before, during, and after the Hitler-Stalin Pact, b) lied elaborately on several occasions to security officers during the period when he headed the development of our most closely guarded secret, and c) associated intimately with Communists during the same period—it was not until all this was revealed that the academic community and its publicists decided to lionize him in earnest.
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