It feels like "The Scroll" is drifting away from having clear criteria on what to report.
Tesla overstating ranges for its cars is just not going to impact world events (and is of primary interest to Tesla owners). In contrast, I haven't seen any mention of the recent paper describing superconductivity at room temperature and pressure--a potentially world-changing discovery.
There is an ongoing effort to destroy Musk. When he bought Twitter, he made public the correspondence between government officials and Twitter executives showing how they were censoring unacceptable opinions. He exposed the rot.
I've been driving Teslas since 2012. They are great cars. Don't believe the negative media reports.
You wrote: "This complex, soul-torn genius was punished by an American establishment in thrall to McCarthyite fanaticism, a blot on American history." This is overwrought. Given all that was known at the time about Oppenheimer's many associations, his failing to report them, and making false certifications that he was not a member of the Communist Party, the determination that he might be a security risk was reasonable. Being denied a security clearance was not a punishment. He was never charged with perjury, of which he was clearly guilty.
He wasn't a CP member AFAIK. However, he had many Communist friends and a Communist lover. Moreover, his brother Frank was for a while a high official of the CPUSA. Hence, he got a lot of scrutiny as a security risk. It didn't bother either Groves or J. Edgar Hoover, as they both had a reasonably good grip on his case. BTW, no evidence has ever been found in Soviet archives released in the 1990s that Oppenheimer was a spy.
Standards were looser in the late 30s and during the war. The shift of perceptions in the late 40s -- especially with the Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons partly through espionage and the start of the Korean War -- made the difference. Suddenly, the Truman administration was embarrassed and didn't know what to say in public. People who might have defended Oppenheimer were too scared to. The security hearing worked by innuendo, never by direct accusation, and was entirely a function of his opposition to a deliverable H-bomb, a policy difference, not espionage.
Thank you. You captured Nolan's accomplishment extraordinarily well. I met II Rabi in passing in the mid 70s. Was his characterization that off? He was from an immigrant family.
It feels like "The Scroll" is drifting away from having clear criteria on what to report.
Tesla overstating ranges for its cars is just not going to impact world events (and is of primary interest to Tesla owners). In contrast, I haven't seen any mention of the recent paper describing superconductivity at room temperature and pressure--a potentially world-changing discovery.
There is an ongoing effort to destroy Musk. When he bought Twitter, he made public the correspondence between government officials and Twitter executives showing how they were censoring unacceptable opinions. He exposed the rot.
I've been driving Teslas since 2012. They are great cars. Don't believe the negative media reports.
You wrote: "This complex, soul-torn genius was punished by an American establishment in thrall to McCarthyite fanaticism, a blot on American history." This is overwrought. Given all that was known at the time about Oppenheimer's many associations, his failing to report them, and making false certifications that he was not a member of the Communist Party, the determination that he might be a security risk was reasonable. Being denied a security clearance was not a punishment. He was never charged with perjury, of which he was clearly guilty.
He wasn't a CP member AFAIK. However, he had many Communist friends and a Communist lover. Moreover, his brother Frank was for a while a high official of the CPUSA. Hence, he got a lot of scrutiny as a security risk. It didn't bother either Groves or J. Edgar Hoover, as they both had a reasonably good grip on his case. BTW, no evidence has ever been found in Soviet archives released in the 1990s that Oppenheimer was a spy.
Standards were looser in the late 30s and during the war. The shift of perceptions in the late 40s -- especially with the Soviet acquisition of nuclear weapons partly through espionage and the start of the Korean War -- made the difference. Suddenly, the Truman administration was embarrassed and didn't know what to say in public. People who might have defended Oppenheimer were too scared to. The security hearing worked by innuendo, never by direct accusation, and was entirely a function of his opposition to a deliverable H-bomb, a policy difference, not espionage.
Thank you. You captured Nolan's accomplishment extraordinarily well. I met II Rabi in passing in the mid 70s. Was his characterization that off? He was from an immigrant family.