Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says

Richard Rhodes' write up, made a strong case it was in part vindictive. A bunch of people in the post Manhattan nuclear governance space resented his presence.

Teller came to a strange place in this, simultaneously self justifying and regretful of his own testimony. The science community treated him according to how they saw his behaviour.

Rhodes also makes a good case that Oppenheimer had been his own worst enemy at times, flirting with danger (how he balanced his own sense of purpose, and dealt with others, especially espiocrats in the anti communist backlash post war) by being economical with the truth, a fantasist at others expense (he caused at least one person to be falsely accused and hounded as a spy, trying to shift blame from his own behaviour) and unnecessarily complicated. He was an intellectual, a snob, and he showed his distain for common people ignoring their uncommon power over him in the situations he found himself in.