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The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives // Physics in Perspective, Vol 11, N 2 / June, 2009, p. 169-197
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[The
Soviet Life of Lev Landau] Moscow: Vagrius, 2008 |
[The
Soviet Life of Lev Landau in eyewitness accounts] Moscow: Vagrius, 200
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Andrei Sakharov // New dictionary of scientific biography
/ Noretta
Koertge, ed. Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale, 2008.
"Edward Teller and realities of illusory worlds," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, March 19, 2007
"[Science and life at the Dawn of cGh-physics]," Seminar on Quantum Gravity and Cosmology dedicated to the 100th birthday of Matvei Bronstein
(St.Petersburg, Nov 30 - Dec 2 2006)
"Secret Physics and Scientific Ethics," Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, June 1, 2006
"A Russian-American Perspective on the Fathers of the H-Bombs," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, April 24, 2006
Matvei Bronstein and quantum gravity: 70th anniversary of the unsolved problem // Physics-Uspekhi 2005, vol 48, no 10, pp. 1039-1053 (pdf)
Andrei Sakharov// Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics. Ed. C. Mitcham. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
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The World of Andrei Sakharov. Oxford University Press, 2005. 406 pp. (with Antonina W. Bouis)
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[Andrei Sakharov: Science and Freedom] Moscow:
Vagrius, 2004
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Web exhibits
Matvei
BRONSTEIN: born 1906, arrested 1937, executed 1938
Andrei
SAKHAROV:
Photo-Chronology
Andrei SAKHAROV: Soviet Physics, Nuclear
Weapons,
and Human Rights
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Articles
The Paternity of the H-Bombs: Soviet-American Perspectives
Andrei Sakharov // New dictionary of scientific biography / Noretta Koertge, ed. Detroit : Charles Scribner's Sons/Thomson Gale, 2008.
Stirrings of Religion in the Soviet H-bomb Lab // Center for History of Physics Newsletter, AIP, Spring 2003
Andrei Sakharov and Edward Teller // The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. Ed. J. L. Heilbron. Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Problem of Conservation Laws and the Poincare Quasigroup in General Relativity// Einstein Studies in Russia. [Einstein Studies, Vol. 10.] Eds. Yu. Balashov, V. Vizgin. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2002. P. 17-43.
Hermann Weyl and Large Numbers in Relativistic Cosmology // Einstein Studies in Russia. [Einstein Studies, Vol. 10.] Eds. Yu. Balashov, V. Vizgin. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 2002. P. 91-106.
The Metamorphosis of Andrei Sakharov // Scientific American, 1999, March, p.98-101
[text only in: The Science of War: Nuclear History. Scientific American Special Issue July 2002]
The Top Secret life of Lev Landau // Scientific American, 1997, August, p.72-77.
Lev
Landau,
prosocialist prisoner of the Soviet state // Physics Today, 1995,
May, p.
11-15.
Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of Gravity and Gravity of Philosophy // The Attraction of Gravitation: New Studies in the History of General Relativity. [Einstein Studies, Vol.5] Eds. J.Earman, M.Janssen, J.D.Norton. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1993. P.308-331.
First Steps of Quantum Gravity and the Planck Values// Studies in the history of general relativity. [Einstein Studies. Vol.3]. Eds. Jean Eisenstaedt, A.J. Kox. Boston: Birkhaeuser, 1992. P.364-379. pdf
The reception of the Theory of Relativity in Russia // The Comparative reception of relativity. Ed. Thomas F. Glick. Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel, 1987. P.256-326 (with V.P.Vizgin).
Talks
“The Soviet Life of Lev Landau and
the
thermonuclear triangle: L.Landau+Ya.Zeldovich+A.Sakharov” (Lebedev
Physical
Institute Moscow, June 17, 2008)
“Science between religion and
atheism” (Institute
for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, June 26, 2008)
"Edward Teller and realities of
illusory
worlds," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, March 19, 2007
"[Lydia Chukovskaya and Matvei
Bronstein: three cultures or the tree of culture]," Conference «[Korney
and Lydia Chukovsky: the double jubilee]», Moscow, March 28, 2007
"[Lydia Chukovskaya and
Matvei
Bronstein]," Archangelsk Regional Academic Library, Archangelsk,
May
22, 2006
"[Science and life at the Dawn
of
cGh-physics]," Seminar on
Quantum
Gravity and Cosmology dedicated to the
100th birthday of Matvei Bronstein
(St.Petersburg, Nov 30 - Dec
2
2006)
"Secret Physics and Scientific
Ethics," Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow,
June 1, 2006
"A Russian-American Perspective on
the
Fathers of the H-Bombs," Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of
Science, April 24, 2006
"Circulating
Top-Secret
Knowledge for the history of H-bomb," 5th British-North American
Joint
Meeting of the BSHS, CSHPS, and HSS, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 7,
2004
"The
Best Defense, or the Worst one? Physics and politics in the history of
Russian
ABM program," the Annual Meeting of History of Science
Society,
Cambridge, MA, November 21, 2003
"A Russian Perspective on the Father
of
the American H-Bomb," Colloquium on the History of Science and
Technology at the University of Minnesota, April 19, 2002
" The best defense or the worst one:
ABM
as the problem and emblem of the century," Institute for History
of
Science and Technology, Moscow, March 28, 2002
"Soviet life of Lev Landau: phase
transition of the 1937," P.L.Kapitsa Institute of Physical
Problems,
Moscow, Nov 22, 2001
"Edward Teller and Lev Landau:
Theoretical Physicists in the Time of Cold Nuclear War," P.L.Kapitsa
Institute of Physical Problems, Moscow, October 25, 2001
"Two Parallels Among Three
Perpendiculars: Andrei Sakharov, Edward Teller, and Robert
Oppenheimer,"
Institute for History of Science and Technology, Moscow, May 31, 2001
"Andrei Sakharov:
Theoretical Physics and Practical Humanics," Commemorative
Ceremony on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the death of Andrei
Sakharov, European Parliament, Strasbourg, December 14, 1999
"Authority of Physics in the
Authoritarian State," Boston Colloquium "Science Without
Freedom in the Twentieth Century", Boston University, May 9-10, 1999
"Andrei Sakharov: from Russian
Theoretical Physics to International Practical Humanics" International
conference "Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative
Perspectives," University of California, Berkeley, January 22-25, 1998
"Lebedev Physical Institute and
Soviet
thermonuclear project," International Symposium "History of the
Soviet Atomic Project", Dubna, Russia, May 14, 1996
"Igor Tamm and Lev Landau, the
Theoretical Physicists in Soviet Practice," Harvard University,
December 8, 1995; and the Annual Meeting of History of Science Society,
Minneapolis, MN, October 27, 1995;
"How Sakharov invented the Soviet
H-bombs," Rossendorf Center for Nuclear Physics, Dresden, March 27,
1995
"How Planck Discovered Quantum
Gravity
Scale," Congress of German Physical Society, Emergence of Modern
Physics,
Berlin, March 22, 1995
"Looking Back at the History of
Sakharov's H-bomb," Michigan State University, January 24, 1995
"Andrei Sakharov, the Fundamental
Physicist and Fundamental Politician," Los Alamos National Laboratory,
November 2, 1994
"Philosophical background of
Sakharov's
H-bomb," Annual Meeting of HSS, New Orleans, October 14, 1994, and the
Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science. January 1994
"Looking Back at the History of
Soviet
A- and H-bombs," Smithsonian workshop on the Cold War. May 11, 1994
"Humanitarian Physicist under
Inhumane
Circumstances (Andrei Sakharov in his generation of Soviet physics),"
Workshop on Science and Political Authority, MIT, Cambridge (MA), May
1992
"Vladimir Fock: Philosophy of Gravity
and Gravity of Philosophy," Third International Conference on the
History
and Philosophy of General Relativity, University of Pittsburgh, June
1991
Book reviews
Judging the stars of Stalin's science (Alexei B Kojevnikov. Stalin's Great Science: The Times and Adventures of Soviet Physicists. Imperial College Press 2004) // PHYSICS WORLD, Novenber 2005.
Zeldovich: Reminiscences. Ed. R. A. Sunyaev. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. // PHYSICS TODAY, August 2005.
Richard Lourie. Sakharov: A Biography. Brandeis University Press 2002 // PHYSICS WORLD, August 2002.
Richard F. Mould. Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe. Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2000. // PHYSICS TODAY, August 2001, p. 51-52.
Laurie M. Brown; Helmut Rechenberg. The Origin of the Concept of Nuclear Forces. Bristol, England /Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1996. // ISIS, 1998, 89: 4, p.751; ÂÈÅÒ 2000, ¹ 2, ñ.181.
David Holloway. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994. // THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 1996, 18: 2, p.458-460.
Letter to the Editor // ISIS, 1996, 87: 1, p.130.
Richard Rhodes. Dark Sun. The making of the hydrogen bomb. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995. // PHYSICS TODAY, January 1996, p.61-62; August 1996, p.84.
B.Breizman, J. Van Dam (Ed.) G.I.Budker: Reflection and Remembrances. NY: AIP, 1994. // ISIS, 1995, 86: 1, p.137-139.
Roald Sagdeev. The Making of a Soviet Scientist: My Adventures in Nuclear Fusion and Space - From Stalin to Star Wars. NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1994. // SCIENCE, May 27, 1994, 264, p. 1347-9.