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Sakharov was justifiably proud of his contribution. After atmospheric testing was stopped, its harmful effects ceased to worry him. JULY 2002 COPYRIGHT 2002 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. His concerns, however, had induced him to take two major steps: from science to the sphere of morals and finally to politics. The bomb program did not really need him anymore, but Sakharov was starting to feel that his presence would be essential to his retaining influence over the politics of weapons. In these years Sakharov also found time to return to his first love, pure science.
On antiballistic-missile systems was to the benefit of the Soviet Union, because an arms race in this new technology would make a nuclear war much more probable. This nine-page memo, with two technical appendices, is now to be found in the Sakharov Archives. ” Nevertheless, permission was refused. The rejection was yet another confirmation to the physicist that those who mattered were oblivious to the danger to which they were subjecting the world. ” He made no effort to hide this manuscript—the secretary at Arzamas-16 retyped it, automatically handing a copy to the KGB.
Currently he is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University. He also wrote for Scientific American in August 1997, on an antiStalin manifesto co-authored by physicist Lev Landau. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. S. Drell and L. Okun in Physics Today, Vol. 43, pages 26–36; August 1990. Andrei Sakharov: Memoirs. Translated from the Russian by Richard Lourie. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Sakharov Remembered: A Tribute by Friends and Colleagues. Edited by Sidney D.