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AUG 01, 1954
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THE Atomic Energy Commission announced on June 29th that it had reached a decision in “the matter of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer”. By a vote of four to one the AEC decided that Oppenheimer should be denied access to restricted data. Commissioners Lewis L. Strauss, Thomas E. Murray, Eugene M. Zuckert, and Joseph Campbell voted to deny clearance, and Commissioner Henry D. Smyth voted to reinstate clearance. Strauss, Zuckert, and Campbell signed the majority opinion, Murray concurred with the majority in a separate opinion, and Smyth submitted a dissenting opinion. Both Zuckert and Campbell issued statements in amplification of their views.

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