J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
United States Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board, Washington, D.C., April 12, 1954, through May 6, 1954. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1954, p. 10.
Ever since the end of WWII, many Republicans have called their Democratic Opponents Marxists and Communists even for a conservative Democrat like Kennedy. Even Ronald Reagan stooped to this tactic before he ran for the Presidency.
Since the end of WWII till the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Bulgarians were part of the Soviet Bloc and operated under communism that was supposedly based on Marxism. However it was not in many critical respects. But few modern Russian style Communists are familiar with or understand Marxism.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.
