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The Russian physicist Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989), who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975, first came to prominence as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. Concerned at the implications his work had for the future of humankind, he sought to raise awareness of the dangers of the nuclear arms race.
Dec 15, 1989 · Dr. Sakharov, a nuclear physicist who was haunted by the weapons he had helped create, left the prestige and orderly life of his top-secret research laboratory for the dangerous spotlight of a...
Famous for his physics as well as his championship of human rights, Andrei Sakharov is one of the most influential figures in the history of the Cold War. Dr. Sakharov studied physics at the University of Moscow and spent twenty years on the Soviet nuclear weapons project, and became the orginator of the Soviet nuclear bomb.
