Scientist As Victim

The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial, by Philip M. Stern, with the collaboration of Harold P. Green. New York: Harper & Row. 591 pp. $10.

For his colleagues and most others who came into contact with him, J. Robert Oppenheimer was a compelling figure; he retains this attraction for those who write about him. Unlike Captain Dreyfus who never emerges as a person from the innumerable accounts of
his case, Oppenheimer is always at center stage. Thus Philip M. Stern, w...