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> Why clear his name now?

There is a movie coming out. That's why. Everyone knew before hand he wasn't guilty of this stuff but it's a boys club, and the club holds the purse to the funding.

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Yeah, I was surprised the article only mentioned this in a quick breath. Of course it's because of the movie! The DoE doesn't want the movie to come out, painting the AEC as these persecutors and bad guys, and then the public crying to the DoE to clear Oppenheimer's name.

Now the DoE can say... "yeah, we already took care of that, nothing to see here". It seems completely transparent to me.

I read American Prometheus, and I think the movie is going to be hard on Strauss and Teller. I suppose that the DOE action this month will get mentioned in the closing credits. I don't know, that might seem too little too late to get the AEC/DOE off the hook. It's unfortunate that movie makers are such powerful interpreters of history. (EG, Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind) This movie will simplify the history and perhaps not be fair to Strauss and Teller. But if I were going to tell a simple story, I think the upcoming movie would be the story I would tell.

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