Andrei Sakharov

A towering figure of the 20th century chronicles his impossible transformation from the secretive “Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb” to the nation’s most fearless and consequential human rights dissident. The narrative is a harrowing personal and historical account detailing his work on world-destroying weapons, his gradual, agonizing realization of the regime’s moral bankruptcy, and […]

This foundational 1968 manifesto launches a fierce moral and intellectual attack on both Soviet totalitarianism and the Western nuclear threat, arguing that human survival demands the radical convergence of the two global systems. The author, a secret-weapons physicist, risks his entire privileged life to declare that the survival of humanity hinges on universal intellectual freedom […]