• Family background and early life[edit]. Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was born in Moscow on 21 May 1921, to a Russian family.
  • With the Cold War with the United States heating up, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev turned to Sakharov to come up with the world’s most powerful bomb ever.
  • Sakharov was awarded the prize in recognition of his struggle against “the abuse of power and violations of human dignity in all its forms.”
  • At the head of the Soviet government still stood its leader — Vladimir Lenin; two months before Andrei Sakharov's appearance on earth, the brutal policy of...
  • “I don’t think the order to cancel came from the top,” said Sergei Lukashevich, director of the Sakharov Center, which had organized the exhibit.
  • ^ "Andrei Sakharov (1921 - 1989)" (İngilizce). atomicarchive.com. 22 Kasım 2015 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 24 Mayıs 2016.
  • Although the reclusive nature of the research would potentially cause others to recoil and suffer, Sakharov indulged in it given the nature of his upbringing.
  • But as to social realities, in Sakharov’s words, “My father was afraid that, if I knew too much about Soviet life, I wouldn't be able to get on in this world.
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  • The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov. edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Alexander Gribanov. ... Sakharov and the activity of other dissidents. June 13, 1968. 4.