The amazing philosophy of science book Lawrence and Oppenheimer by Nuel Davis gives another look at elite aristocratic policy but as determined structurally through Freemasonic science (specifically through the Bohemian Grove secret society). There was so much paranoia about secret codes in the development of fission energy that the CIA and the FBI wanted to screen all recipients of National Research Council and National Science Foundation grants for political views.
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Most famously, a planning meeting for the Manhattan Project in 1942 held at the Grove later led to the development of the atomic bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer, whose celebrated life and mind are chronicled thoroughly in the 2023 blockbuster, is said to have attended a private event at the mysterious Bohemian Grove club in 1942 where he first discussed the Manhattan Project.
From left to right: Harold C. Urey, Ernest O. Lawrence, James B. Conant, Lyman J. Briggs, E. V. Murphree and Arthur Compton
The S-1 Executive Committee (left) met to consider the Lewis report on December 9, 1942. Most of the morning session was spent evaluating the controversial recommendation that only a small electromagnetic plant be built. Lewis and his colleagues based their recommendation on the belief that Lawrence could not produce enough uranium-235 to be of military significance. But since Lawrence's calutrons could provide enriched samples quickly, the committee supported the construction of a small electromagnetic plant. James Conant disagreed with the Lewis committee's assessment, believing that uranium had more weapon potential than plutonium. And since he knew that gaseous diffusion could not provide any enriched uranium until the gaseous diffusion plant was in full operation, he supported the one method that might, if all went well, produce enough uranium to build a bomb in 1944. During the afternoon, the S-1 Executive Committee went over a draft Groves had prepared for Vannevar Bush to send to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The draft supported the Lewis committee's report except that it recommended skipping the pilot plant stage for the pile. After Conant and the Lewis committee met on December 10 and reached a compromise on an intermediate-scale electromagnetic plant, Groves's draft was amended and forwarded to Bush.
https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942/final_approval_build.htm
In June 1941, Roosevelt created the Office of Scientific Research and Development under the leadership of Vannevar Bush (OSRD), at it incorporated the NDRC, now under James B. Conant. The Uranium Committee became the Uranium Section of the OSRD, which was soon renamed the S-1 Section for security reasons. By May 1942, it was felt that the S-1 Section had become too unwieldy, and in June 1942, was replaced by the smaller S-1 Executive Committee.
The September 1942 meeting was held at Bohemian Grove. Nichols and Major Thomas T. Crenshaw, Jr., attended, along with physicist Robert Oppenheimer.[47] This meeting resolved most of the outstanding issues confronting the project,[47] but Bush and Conant felt that the time had now come for the Army to take over the project, something that had already been approved by the president on June 17, 1942. After some discussion, it was decided that Groves, who would be promoted to the rank of brigadier general, would become the director of the Manhattan Project on September 23, 1942.
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/brau/H182/Term%20papers%20%2702/Matt%20E.htm
The truth was that Heisenberg saw himself confronted with the specter of the atomic bomb, and he wanted to signal to Bohr that Germany neither would nor could build a bomb. That was his central motive. He hoped that the Americans, if Bohr could tell them this, would perhaps abandon their own incredibly expensive development. (Powers 117-118)
Four years later, he is even clearer about his efforts to sabotage the bomb project when he wrote a letter to his editor that said, “Dr. Hahn, Dr. von Laue and I falsified the mathematics in order to avoid the development of the atom bomb by German scientists” (Rose 60).
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