What were Sakharov’s contributions to world peace?

Question by Sasha Kotlik: what were Andrei Sakharov’s contributions to world peace?
I need to write a biography on him that is due tomorrow and that was one of the questions that we have to answer and I’m so confused. Can someone please help? Thanks!

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Answer by Winston Chau
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov lived his life as an eminent Soviet Nuclear Physicist, dissident and human rights activist. He was a prominent figure for reforms and civil liberties in the Soviet Union, therefore earning him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. He also had a few prizes named after him in 1988, usually going out to anyone who participated in, and impacted, civil rights and liberty movements. He was, as quoted by the Nobel Peace Committee, the ‘spokesman for the conscience of mankind’. A few books written by Andrei Sakharov are Sakharov Speaks and My Country and the World. The scientist studied many things, but among the most important were cosmic rays, the Soviet Atomic bomb Project, explosively pumped flux compression generators, anti-matter, worm holes and quantum gravity. Even after confused feelings about science and the materials he worked with

In his long life, Andrei Sakharov contributed many things to better the field of science, and the world in general. Known in scientific circles as the ‘Father of the Soviet Atomic Bomb’, he was a successful scientist, however, he is also known as Soviet Russia’s most prominent political dissident, making him successful in politics as well. After he entered the Lebedev Institute in Physics, he joined the Soviet research group, working on atomic weapons. At the young age of 32, Sakharov became the youngest person ever elected into the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He also wrote many scientific articles and had his achievements recognized all over the world.

Andrei dedicated much of his time to education, and then the Soviet Atomic Bomb Project. He contributed much to the world of explosive war craft and affected the way we fight today through his findings. However, with his realization that humane and peaceful ways were what he was seeking, he immediately halted his work in explosives, and delved himself into cosmology and universe theories, forever changing the way we think about outer-space and the expansive universe in which we live today. With his giving up of hydrogen and atomic bombs, Sakharov became a prominent dissident in Russian society, making sure his voice and message of equality and fairness and humanity were heard loud and clear.

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