Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist, headed the top secret Los Alamos Laboratory, which was established under President Franklin Roosevelt as home of the Manhattan Project.

Reflecting on the Oppenheimer hearing, Nichols wrote, "There were no winners in the Oppenheimer hearing, except possibly the preservation of the security system for protecting classified data. For ...

In 1954, the man who led the project that created the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II had his security clearance revoked by the Atomic Energy Commission after being accused of ...

Oppenheimer died in 1967. The popularity of the 2023 film, 'Oppenheimer', written and directed by Christopher Nolan, supports journalist David Rieff's claim that the “spell he cast has not waned.” ...

Kenneth D. Nichols, as General Manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended against reinstating J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance in 1954. Nichols believed Oppenheimer was loyal but ...

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his leading role in ...

Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing General (then Colonel) Kenneth D. Nichols as deputy district engineer and subsequently as district ...