Table of Contents

Part I: From Tsarist Russia to the Tsardom of Soviet Physics
1: The Emergence of Soviet Physics and the Birth of FIAN
2: Leonid Mandelshtam: The Teacher and His School
3: The Year 1937
Part II: Intra-Atomic, Nuclear, and Thermonuclear
4: The Moral Underpinnings of the Soviet Atomic Project
5: Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's Graduate Student
6: Sergei Vavilov: The President of the Academy of Science
7: Nuclear Physics under Beria's Command
8: Russian Physics at the height of Cosmopolitanism
9: The Hydrogen Bomb at FIAN
Part III: In The Nuclear Archipelago
10: The Installation
11: The "Heroic" Work at the Installation
12: Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice
13: The Physics of Social Responsibility
14: From Military Physics to Peaceful Cosmology
15: World Peace and World Science
16: Reflections on Intellectual Freedom in 1968
Part IV: A humanitarian Physicist
17: Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn: The Physics and Geometry of Russian History
18: On the Other Side
19: Andrei and Lusya
20: Freedom and responsibility

Reviews

"With its wider perspectives on the institutions and realities of Sakharov's age, this book should take a rightful place...among front displays of books about science, public policy and society...Through the example of the Soviet Union and its dissident hero Andrei Sakharov, Gorelik and Bouis have made an invaluable contribution to the universal conversation about morality and science."--The Moscow Times