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A recent edit has said that his name was pronounced "Straws". I've always heard it as "Strauws", but it could be that the people I've heard are just wrong. Any way to confirm this externally? --Fastfission 00:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

It is pronounced "Straws" - that's just how the family pronounces it.


 * Good to know!--24.147.86.187 18:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)


 * According to the “The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer” documentary (an "American Experience" documentary) on PBS, it is pronounced "Straws".
 * Anyone interested in Lewis Strauss might also find the following interesting: http://www.ecommcode2.com/hoover/research/historicalmaterials/other/strauss/stramain.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.141.228.51 (talk) 06:44, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * In the book by Oishi Matashichi about the 第五福竜丸 (Daifukuryūmaru) fishing vessel, his name is written as ストローズ (sutorōzu) which would be pronounced "Straws".

Strauss and Oppenheimer
This section is excessively hostile to Strauss. I think that it needs to be sourced and balanced. I don't happen to disagree with much of what's in here, but it reads too much like an anti-Strauss polemic. I've tried to tone it down but it needs work, and footnotes. Figureofnine (talk) 18:18, 28 May 2010 (UTC)


 * hostile? today this man could be in prison for violating the law! Im not allowed to say what he really was.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.147.50 (talk) 20:53, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Why is this man referred to as a "Jewish businessman"? If he were a Lutheran would you call him a "Lutheran business man"? a Jewish reader —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.185.228.236 (talk) 15:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

It appears someone added "Jewish" in front of "businesman" some time in January. You are correct, it is not germane. Consider it fixed. Blubbaloo (talk) 01:12, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It is now excessively too pro-Strauss. It does not indicate the breadth and nastiness of Strauss' anti-Oppenheimer campaign, which is quite well documented. The Pfau book is a fawning biography and should not be relied on so heavily, especially when there is so much better, and more recent, work on the Oppenheimer affair. --Mr.98 (talk) 15:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Well Strauss was a small man with petty hatreds for small things about people -He was a. he was arrogant to the extreme. He worked with Hoover to discredit others by using bugging devices, lies and planting judges on Oppenhiemer's kafka like trial. It was a good day when he lost the vote and I hope died like he lived bitter and twisted. yes he was the worst extreme of jewness (don't start as I am Jewish guess what jews have evil people in their midst) along with Teller. This man brought us along the anxiety path of decades cold war and actively pursued a path of building over 70,000 nuclear bombs. He was a weak, snide, twisted political misanthrope. He was of age of loud mouthed idiots that believed their opinion was more important than anyone. Hope Struass, Hoover, Robb (lawyer at the trial), and Teller rot in a some small forgotten planet where they are stay for eternity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.144.218.81 (talk) 11:38, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The article also ignores Strauss's lack of qualifications to serve on the AEC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:6AE5:2510:0:0:0:46 (talk) 18:18, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

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Major figure in the development of atomic weapons?
Nothing in this article really supports the introductory paragraph stating that he was a major figure in the development of atomic weapons. It is not supported in the referenced source. Also, as an aside the source itself seems unreliable per policy WP:NOTRELIABLE. To be clear, I'm not disputing the assertion that he was a major figure in atomic weapon development, it just isn't reflected in the article's body or the source material. Klaun (talk) 20:05, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

"Major figure" is a vague subjective term. It would be more descriptive to say Strauss was an ernest proponent of atomic weapons technology. He clashed mightily with Oppenheimer over the development of hydrogen bombs (Oppenheimer was opposed to the production of anything stronger than conventional fission bombs). Blubbaloo (talk) 16:55, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

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