{"product_id":"2026200015288-secondhand-the-oppenheimer-hearing","title":"The Oppenheimer Hearing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of the most dramatic confrontations of the Cold War era, a brilliant physicist who had helped build the most destructive weapon in human history found himself accused of disloyalty by the very government he had served. The Oppenheimer Hearing chronicles the 1954 security hearings in which J. Robert Oppenheimer — father of the atomic bomb and former director of the Manhattan Project — was stripped of his security clearance, presenting a meticulous reconstruction of the proceedings that shook the American scientific and political establishment to its core. John Major draws on the official transcripts and historical records to detail the accusations, testimonies, and political machinations that transformed a national hero into a suspected subversive, capturing both the personal anguish of Oppenheimer and the broader paranoia of McCarthyite America.\n\nA rigorous work of historical scholarship, The Oppenheimer Hearing illuminates the devastating collision between scientific idealism and Cold War political orthodoxy, arguing that the hearing was as much a product of institutional fear and personal vendettas as it was a genuine inquiry into national security. Major's authoritative and measured prose, praised by *The New York Times Book Review* as careful… judiciously weighing the evidence… painstaking and balanced, gives the narrative the weight of a courtroom drama and the precision of a historical document. For anyone seeking to understand how America treated its greatest minds during its most anxious hour, this account leaves an unsettling question hanging in the air: when a nation turns on its own heroes, who is truly on trial?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203206389979,"sku":"2026200015288-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/55793d59-2f41-43df-acdf-466683a2e7ef.png?v=1788145699","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015288-secondhand-the-oppenheimer-hearing","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}