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Feb 9, 2010 · In Moscow, Andrei Dmitriyevich Sakharov, the Soviet physicist who helped build the USSR’s first hydrogen bomb, is arrested after criticizing the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan. He ...
Awarded for the first time in 1988 to Nelson Mandela and Anatoli Marchenko, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought is the highest tribute paid by the European Union to human rights work. It gives recognition to individuals, groups and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to protecting freedom of thought.
David Holloway on: Andrei Sakharov. Andrei Sakharov Museum in Moscow Virtual Tour. Annotated bibliography of Andrei Sakharov from the Alsos Digital Library. Sakharov and SETI. Collection of biographical works dedicated to Andrei Sakharov. Sakharov Archive (Russian) Sakharov Museum and Public Center: Peace, Progress and Human Rights (Russian)
Jul 25, 2018 · Andrei Sakharov, pictured in 1977, was transformed from the Soviet Union’s most brilliant young nuclear physicist to one of the world’s best-qualified crusaders against nuclear testing.
Dec 15, 1989 · Andrei D. Sakharov, the indomitable human-rights campaigner who prevailed in official exile to become a relentless prod to the Soviet Union's new congress, died apparently of a heart attack late ...
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The world-renowned physicist Andrei D. Sakharov (1921–1989) was ‘the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb’ and, as such, an architect of the Soviet superpower. He developed into a fierce fighter for human rights, distinguished by the Nobel Peace Prize. In his words, ‘my fate was larger than what would have followed from my personality.
