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The race against Hitler to build the first nuclear bomb
03 Jul 2025 07:36 GMT
… -old Sicilian physicist ‘probably understood more nuclear physics theory … wrong. The discovery of nuclear fission in December 1938 … to fascism, nuclear power rather than nuclear weapons would have … on ethical grounds, and Andrei Sakharov, who spent the rest …
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Exiled Russian scholar on why Dugin is no philosopher, and Russia no defender of ‘traditional values’
09 Jun 2025 14:04 GMT
… Revolution (in 1917) in Russia effectively severed the continuity … conservative tradition during the Soviet period, by figures like … debate between Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov in the 1970s and … greater than that of Russia. Russia represents only a small …
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Return Respect for the Rule of Law and Human Rights to International Politics
30 Apr 2025 20:20 GMT
… did not happen: nuclear catastrophe was prevented … “socialist” and post-Soviet countries had the opportunity … humanist and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov wrote: “Peace, progress, human rights — these … trampling on human rights within Russia itself and …
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UK-Japan charting a joint nuclear fusion future
02 Jun 2025 07:12 GMT
… Alan Sykes, the UK physicist who was one of Tokamak … by Russian (Soviet) physicists Oleg Lavrentiev, Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm … racing China, the EU, Russia, India and South Korea … the European Organization for Nuclear Research, discovered the elementary …
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What can a ‘poorly-made’ Stalin sculpture tell us about Putin's Russia?
29 May 2025 12:38 GMT
… length sculptural relief of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin appeared … crimes, alongside the human rights abuses of which Russia has been regularly … late dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov, managed to transport its collection and archives out of Russia …
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America and the Vatican Must Confront China on Human Rights, Starting with Jimmy Lai
11 Mar 2025 09:03 GMT
… old Hong Kong businessman turned human rights activist and convert to Catholicism … release of jailed human rights activists in the Soviet Union, Andrei Sakharov and Natan Sharansky … including those being persecuted for human rights advocacy.
The Church, as …
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Russia threatens to nuke the US into 'radioactive Waterworld' in attack on Trump
03 May 2025 13:08 GMT
… to growing US pressure on Russia surrounding ongoing efforts to find … " and "suffocate" Russia economically, Solovyov fired back with … Cold War-era nuclear scenario allegedly proposed by Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov.
“He [Sakharov] proposed …
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Russian State TV Says Nuclear Strike Would Turn US Into 'Waterworld'
02 May 2025 14:48 GMT
… famous human rights champion, a talented engineer and a physicist, and … I think. His name was Andrei Sakharov.
"In his time, … with his history of nuclear threats and inflammatory rhetoric. … attention to the nuclear bluster from Russia's propagandists …
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Russia's leaders must look in the mirror again
27 Apr 2025 14:39 GMT
… book years back about Russia’s Soviet ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin … . Dobrynin was the Soviet ambassador from 1962 to … strategy of using Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov’s persecution — and … Russia’s ongoing drive to reclaim countries lost by the former Soviet …
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Beyond Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy: Meet Lomonosov
03 Jul 2025 22:03 GMT
… But on your journey through Russia, there's another … voice of progressive thought in Russia. Anton Chekhov, the son … Moscow University. At 17, Andrei Sakharov enrolled in the Department of … auditorium neared completion, the Soviet Union reached out to the …