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Jul 26, 2023 · Strauss found his support for a hydrogen bomb doggedly opposed by physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the chairman of the AEC’s general advisory committee who led the Manhattan Project in Los...
Jul 21, 2023 · The backstory. Strauss was born in 1896 in Charleston, West Virginia, and his parents were Jewish emigrants from Germany and Austria. As a boy, his plan was to study physics at university, but...
Jul 28, 2023 · Strauss became an assistant to Herbert Hoover (US president between 1929 to 1933) as part of relief efforts during and after World War I. He also worked as an investment banker at Kuhn, Loeb & Co...
Jul 25, 2023 · As the film depicts, Oppenheimer really did humiliate Strauss in front of Congress when the two men disagreed about exporting radioisotopes, a scene that is taken largely verbatim from the book.
Mar 20, 2014 · Robert Strauss’s agility made him one of America's most influential people. In a world that refuses to stop changing, agility has become the secret to success and happiness.
Mar 9, 2024 · Lewis Strauss, the government official who schemed to end J. Robert Oppenheimer’s career, is a key figure in Christopher Nolan's film. (Video: Allie Caren, Dan Diamond/The Washington Post)
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Jul 21, 2023 · Strauss, whom Oppenheimer had humiliated at a Congressional hearing about whether or not to ban the sale of radioisotopes, took a particular dislike to the physicist.
