How did the us government respond to robert oppenheimer’s opposition to developing the hydrogen bomb?

The answer is: He was accused of disloyalty and lost his security clearance.

This happen during the period when general public were anxious that a lot of spies from the soviet union have invaded the united states  (red scarce).

At that time, the opposition of Robert Oppenheimer accused him of disloyalty and said that he's a part of Soviet union's spies that want to limit united states' technological development. Even though all Oppenheimer want is to stopped mass killings from hydrogen bomb to ever happen gain.

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