Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The emergence of Soviet physics and the birth of FIAN
  • Leonid Mandelshtam : the teacher and his school
  • The year 1937
  • The moral underpinnings of the Soviet atomic project
  • Andrei Sakharov, Tamm's graduate student
  • Sergei Vavilov : the president of the Academy of Sciences
  • Nuclear physics under Beria's command
  • Russian physics at the height of cosmopolitanism
  • The hydrogen bomb at FIAN
  • The Installation
  • The "heroic" work at the Installation
  • Theoretical physicists in Soviet practice
  • The physics of social responsibility
  • From military physics to peaceful cosmology
  • World peace and world science
  • Reflections on intellectual freedom in 1968
  • Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn : the physics and geometry of Russian history
  • On the other side
  • Andrei and Lusya
  • Freedom and responsibility.