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Andrei Sakharov: United States
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Sakharov added his signature to another petition in the fall. This time, he and twenty other prominent figures protested the introduction of two new articles into the Criminal Code: Article 190-1 and 190-3. The former made it illegal to circulate false statements about the regime. The second article forbade violations of public order by a group, in effect forbidding unauthorized demonstrations. Both changes were in direct response to the Sinyavsky and Daniel case and their unconvincing prosecution under Article 70, which forbade “agitation and propaganda” against the regime. During their trial, the regime claimed that the defendants had intended to subvert the government with false statements, which was required for prosecution under Article 70.
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After the end of the war in 1945, Sakharov started to study for his doctorate degree, and studied under Igor Evgenyevich Tamm (who eventually received a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958), who became a great influence in Sakharov's academic life. In 1947, Sakharov defended his doctorate thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 he was included in a research team given the task of developing nuclear weapons for Stalin. Thus, the chapter of Sakharov's life that he would later come to regret the most, had begun. For the next twenty years, Sakharov would be living in "the installation", a large secret city (even the name of this place was a state secret! It is now known to be Sarov) in the central Volga region, building weapons of terrifying destructive power.
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Once freed, Sakharov lent his enormous moral authority to Gorbachev’s policies, all the while pressing him to liberalize political controls as thoroughly as possible. Elected by scholars in the Academy of Sciences as one of their representatives to the new Congress of People’s Deputies in March 1989, he used his seat in the congress to propound his reformist views, often drawing the ire of less progressive members. Sakharov died of a heart attack on December 14, 1989, and was buried with state honors in Moscow. The Russian people mourned him deeply, and many felt that his death created a moral and humanitarian vacuum that was perilous to a nation beginning to reach for democracy.
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Sakharov would surely support, and urge expanding, modern initiatives to build trust and cooperation between the United States and Russia. I have no doubt that he would encourage and support U.S. cooperation in helping Russia safeguard its nuclear weapons and material, as well as the ongoing U.S.-Russian government-to-government discussions for sharing information to help provide early warning of a nuclear missile attack. This information sharing should be pursued more broadly with all interested countries. Confidence in access to early warning information is a purely defensive measure that will enhance stability by reducing fear of a preemptive first strike.
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Sakharov entered Moscow State University in 1938. Following evacuation in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War, he graduated in Aşgabat, in today's Turkmenistan. He was then assigned laboratory work in Ulyanovsk. During this period, in 1943, he married Klavdia Alekseyevna Vikhireva, with whom he raised two daughters and a son before she died in 1969.[1] He returned to Moscow in 1945 to study at the Theoretical Department of FIAN (the Physical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences). He received his Ph.D. in 1947.
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In December 1986, Gorbachev released Sakharov and his wife from exile. It was a pragmatic move on Gorbachev's part: He desired closer relations with the West, and Sakharov had become a hero to many in the United States and elsewhere. Sakharov became a spokesman for the reforms Gorbachev was trying to push through, and praised the construction of the new Soviet Union. His November 1988 trip to the United States was part of this effort. Nevertheless, he continued to press for more democracy in the Soviet Union. On December 14, 1989, shortly after delivering a speech denouncing Russia's one-party rule, Sakharov suffered a heart attack and died.
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