The most spectacular thing about the movie “Oppenheimer” is that one of the world’s greatest film-makers spent $100 million making his masterpiece and still seems to be in the dark in respect of whether the “father of the A-bomb” was a member of the Communist Party. That, and the shocking decision of President Biden in January to restore the scientist’s security clearance posthumously, suggests it’s time for the government to come clean.
It’s a surprise how much remains classified at various US agencies.
