Andrei Sakharov Quotes
The test is pointless. It will kill people for no reason
The tests went on and Sakhorov became a dissident.
Andrei Sakharov, 1921-1989, Russian Nuclear Physicist & Dissident, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elected Member of the Russian Duma, Phone call to Premier Nikita Khrushchev asking him to halt planned atmospheric nuclear tests, September 25, 1962
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This was the first Russian atomic explosion.
Reacting to the announcement that Russia had developed a nuclear capability:
Kahn was the leading scientist behind the Pakistan nuclear weapons program. However, he then was personally involved in not only selling nuclear secrets to other counties but to terrorists as well. He personally enriched himself while enabling nuclear proliferation in the world. The article was an expose of his dishonest and illegal activities. The Pakistan government was in a bind. Kahn was a national hero, the only Pakistani who had ever won the Nobel Prize in a Scientific Field. Convicted and then pardoned by the President, but he was put under house arrest and surveillance and banned from any activity involving technical assistance to others. Kahn’s religious bigotry towards Hindus as disclosed by his letter made him even more of an international pariah. See {586386} for other attacks on his critics.
This statement was made at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This statement from an avowed Marxist illustrates the complexity of the Cold War. Marxists and Communists like Pannekoek felt that there had to be a workers’ movement to overcome the capitalist interest in a nuclear arms race. However, they also believed that Russia had botched communism so badly that there could be no workers’ movement in the Soviet Union because of the repression. Only in America they believed could the impetus for disarmament come.
This prediction was sadly terribly accurate. Nuclear terrorism is a realistic threat at the millennium. Pannekoek was one of the first to predict it.
A leading Japanese official had stated that Americans were lazy and illiterate. The senator visited a plant in his home state.
Only three days later the Russians detonated their first atomic device.
Stalin used this phrase during the period when the U. S. had nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union did not. Stalin had his scientists working frantically to catch up but in the interim he outwardly displayed a bravado diminishing the military importance of nuclear weapons and minimizing the disadvantage that the Russians were at.
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet and Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights.
