Andrei Sakharov, father of the Soviet Hydrogen bomb, who later became an opponent of nuclear tests, was selected for the 1975 Nobel peace prize. The committee chose Sakharov, a bitter critic of persecution in the Soviet Union, from more than 50 nominations. Sakharov, a brilliant physicist, became a critic of nuclear tests from 1958 onwards […]

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