In 1947, Oppenheimer took a position as director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
He received a hefty salary of $20,000 a year and the opportunity to live for free in a 17th-century house, with a cook and caretaker. The house was surrounded by woods covering 107 acres.
Oppenheimer was suspected of treason. When the Soviet Union successfully tested an atomic bomb in 1949, it came as a surprise to the United States. Since it came so soon after the Manhattan Project, it was suspected that someone had betrayed the project.
One of the suspects was Oppenheimer, who was already believed to be a communist sympathizer. The Ame ...