Volume 49, Number 8 · May 9, 2002
Keeping the Sparks Alive
By Aileen Kelly
Sakharov: A Biography
by Richard Lourie
Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, 465 pp., $30.00
Andrei Sakharov first came to world attention on July 22, 1968, when The New York Times published his essay 'Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom.' With the advent of nuclear weapons, he wrote, mankind was faced with a choice: to risk extinction by increasing its divisions, or to move toward economic, social, and ideological convergence between socialist and capitalist systems, and a united approach to global problems.
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