Research material gathered by Sherman, Kai Bird, Alice Kimball Smith, and others regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer. Used by Bird and Sherman in writing American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005). Includes correspondence, interviews, oral histories, government records, topical files, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Documents Oppenheimer's work as director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, his political views, and investigations of his Communist associations. Subjects include the atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, international control of atomic energy and weaponry, national security, and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Persons represented include Hans A. Bethe, Haakon Chevalier, Lee A. DuBridge, Francis Fergusson, Leslie R. Groves, Paul Horgan, George F. Kennan, David Eli Lilienthal, Frank Oppenheimer, Katherine P. Oppenheimer, Lewis L. Strauss, Jean Tatlock, and Edward Teller.