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Andrei Sakharov: science and freedom by Sakharov, Andreĭ;Gorelik, Gennadiĭ Efimovich;Bouis, Antonina W is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p><P>How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was simply a man with an unusual fate. To understand this deceptively straightforward statement by an extraordinary man, <b>The World of Andrei Sakharov</b>, the first authoritative study of Andrei Sakharov as a scientist as well as a public figure, relies on previously inaccessible documents, recently declassified archives, and personal accounts by Sakharov's friends and colleagues to examine the real context of Sakharov's life. <P>In the course of doing so, Gennady Gorelik answers a fascinating question, whether the Soviet hydrogen bomb was really fathered by Sakharov, or whether it was based on stolen American secrets. Gorelik concludes that while espionage did initiate the Soviet effort, the Russian hydrogen bomb was invented independently. Gorelik also elucidates the reasons that brought about the seemingly sudden transformation of the top-secret physicist into a public figure in 1968, when Sakharov's famous essay Progress, Peacef

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Author

Sakharov, Andreĭ;Gorelik, Gennadiĭ Efimovich;Bouis, Antonina W

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781602566903

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography