~~~ Apparently today the powers that be have decided that J. Robert Oppenheimer was not a Soviet spy despite having been a Communist party member and having been surrounded by Communists. This dodges the question of whether someone close to him gained access to enough information to aid the Soviet nuclear program.
That explanation makes more sense because if one of the designers of the bomb had been giving information to the Soviets, their program would have been farther along. Someone got let off the hook and willing patsies like the Rosenbergs, who tried but were mostly inconsequential, paid the price.
Human history can be measured in the management of optics; some call this “narrative control” but most people think in terms of the tangible, which means how things look right...