Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. Earliest influences : 1921-1945
  • 1. A childhood of culture and ideas
  • 2. Expanding horizons
  • pt. II. Designing weapons for the maintenance of peace : 1945-1956
  • 3. Tamm's protege at FIAN
  • 4. Arzamas-16--the secret installation
  • 5. The "layer cake" and other weapons
  • pt. III. A scientist with a social conscience : 1956-1968
  • 6. Radioactive fallout and other matters of conscience
  • 7. Confronting Khrushchev
  • 8. The Nuzhdin affair
  • 9. A dissident at last
  • pt. IV. Challenging the Soviet goliath : 1968-1973
  • 10. Reflections on progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom
  • 11. An equal partner in politics and life
  • 12. Moral anchor of a dissident movement
  • 13. The regime reacts
  • pt. V. "Domestic enemy number one" : 1973-1980
  • 14. Orchestrated vituperation
  • 15. Debating Solzhenitsyn
  • 16. Detente and human rights
  • 17. Nobel laureate
  • 18. The noose tightens
  • pt. VI. In exile, unrepentant : 1980-1986
  • 19. Arrested but still defiant
  • 20. Finding hope in quantum physics
  • 21. TheSoviet leadership softens
  • pt. VII. The conscience of perestroika : 1986-1989
  • 22. Return to Moscow
  • 23. A different kind of perestroika
  • 24. The congress of people's deputies
  • 25. Apotheosis postmortem
  • Conclusion : Sakharov's legacy.