What is the scope of individual conscience in the modern State? 25 years ago an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Nearly 10 years later, at the time of the 'Cold War,' Robert Oppenheimer, the American nuclear physicist who had become known as the 'Father of the Atom Bomb,' was charged by the United States Atomic Energy Commission with being unfit to be trusted with his country's secrets.
This programme is a reconstruction, taken verbatim from the official transcript, of the enquiry into his case held by a Personnel Security Board in Washington, DC, during April and May 1954.
In the part of Oppenheimer: Cyril Luckham
Introduced by Stuart Hood
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