Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
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was a man with a social conscience. Sakharov had an inner moral fiber that led him to question his creations. His morality made him one of the most responsible scientists of his time. He managed to look beyond the walls of his laboratory. This vision enabled him to become the Father of the Soviet ....
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.... a design called “sakharization” whereby fusion released neutrons that enabled the fission of uranium. In 1950, Sakharov was assigned to work in a secret city with other scientists to further develop the bomb. It was there that he designed a plasma that would help produce energy from sustained fusion. In 1953, Russia tested its hydrogen bomb and it proved to be successful. At the age of 32 he was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Sakharov continued his work on improving the bomb. ....
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