The First War of Physics (75 page)

Authors: Jim Baggott

BOOK: The First War of Physics

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28. A new generation of Soviet physicists, ‘possessed by a true war psychology’ embraced the challenge of creating weapons capable of ever-increasing devastation. Andrei Sakharov (pictured here on the left) regarded himself as a soldier in a new scientific war. (AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection)

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