“Peace, progress, human rights - these three goals are inextricably linked. One is not possible without the other.”

— Andrei Sakharov

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About Andrei Sakharov

Physicist • Soviet

Andrei Sakharov was a leading Soviet nuclear physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb. Disturbed by the moral and political implications of his work, he became a...

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