His name was Wernher von Braun, and at the time of Oppenheimer’s supposed security lapses, he had been working for Nazi Germany. What a strange country America was, he thought; in England, Oppenheimer surely would have been knighted for his scientific achievements. Harold Green, the young AEC security lawyer who had drawn up the security charges, was enraged by Teller’s testimony. You double-dealing, lying son of a bitch, he thought to himself. You don’t have the guts to say for the record what you said to the FBI, the words I helped base this procedure on.
