"I think the data that went out in the case of the Rosenbergs was of minor value. I would never say that publicly. Again that is something while it is not secret, I think should be kept very quiet, because irrespective of the value of that in the overall picture, the Rosenbergs deserved to hang, and I would not like to see anything that would make people say General Groves thinks they didn’t do much damage after all."
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quoted in In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1954), but redacted from the version published in 1954. Released to the public in 2015.
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