Among Ike's objectives in not directly confronting McCarthy was to prevent McCarthy from dragging the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) into McCarthy's witch hunt for communists, which would interfere with, and perhaps delay, the AEC's important work on H-bombs. The administration had discovered through its own investigations that one of the leading scientists on the AEC, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had urged that the H-bomb work be delayed. Eisenhower removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance, though he knew this would create fertile ground for McCarthy. COUNT 4
QSN1 What organization did Eisenhower want to keep from being one of McCarthy's targets? ANS1 Atomic Energy Commission QSN2 What was the AEC working on at this time? ANS2 H-bombs QSN3 What AEC scientists counseled delaying the development of the hydrogen bomb? ANS3 J. Robert Oppenheimer QSN4 What did Eisenhower do to Oppenheimer after he said that the hydrogen bomb should be delayed? ANS4 removed him from the agency and revoked his security clearance