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Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his…

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  1. Foxla

    Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says nearly 70 years later (opens Foxla)

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    Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, led the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

  2. Portland Press Herald

    Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, U.S. says (opens Portland Press Herald)

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    The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb.

  3. WTOP Washington DC

    Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says (opens WTOP Washington DC)

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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his…

  4. UPI

    J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance posthumously restored (opens UPI)

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist known as "the father of the atomic bomb," has had his security clearance posthumously restored, U.S. officials announced.

  5. NBC News

    U.S. wrongly revoked Oppenheimer’s security clearance; Biden admin (opens NBC News)

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    Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a written order that the since-dissolved Atomic Energy Commission acted out of political motives.

  6. NPR

    J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was wrongly revoked, energy secretary says (opens NPR)

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    J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, lost his security clearance "through a flawed process that violated the Commission's own regulations," according to the Department of Energy.

  7. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    U.S. rescinds ’54 decision on Oppenheimer (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's feed description

    WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration has reversed a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist called the father of the atomic bomb for his leading role in World War II's Manhattan Project.

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