OppenheimerAt a time when the Manhattan Project was synonymous with large scale science, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (190467) represented the new sociocultural power of the American intellectual. Catapulted to fame as director of the Los Alamos atomic weapons laboratory, Oppenheimer occupied a key position in the compact between science and the state that developed out of World War II. By tracing the makingand unmakingof Oppenheimers wartime and postwar