Talk:Andrei Sakharov
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[edit] Honorary citizenship
A bill for Sakharov to receive honorary citizenship was introduced, but according to Thomas it never made it out of committee.
- Latest Major Action: 5/6/2002 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims. [1]
Surely this would have generated a news story if it had passed. Based on the Thomas cite, this proclomation failed. -Willmcw 05:36, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- I don't get it. This says it was resolved that he IS granted citizenship.[2]....?--Deglr6328 07:04, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- That's the way the resolution is worded. But the resolution was never voted on. "Died in committee" is the usual term. FYI, both Nelson and Winnie Mandela were nominated for honorary citizenship and both nominations failed in the same fashion as Sakharov's. This page on the Senate webiste [3] has the complete list. The good news is that there is no statute of limitations. It took William Penn a few hundred years to become an American citizen. ;) Cheers, -Willmcw 08:22, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I don't get it. This says it was resolved that he IS granted citizenship.[2]....?--Deglr6328 07:04, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Karabakh
There was nothing dubiuos, facts are not disputed. Sakharov's wife was an Armenian from Shusha (in NK), he was extremely biased and was actively supporting Armenia in the conflict, urging it to defend Karabakh using military forces. Later he also made a ridiculous proposal - a referendum to allow each village of Karabakh to choose whether to join Armenia or Azerbajdzhan. Read any of his talks on this topic to see that there is nothing dubious about my edit. Paranoid 15:20, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Nobel
After Parastroika did he ever get his nobel? --Gbleem 19:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sakharov Conditions
Is there a reason why one of his greatest achievements in physices, the Sakharov conditions, are not yet mentioned? 85.216.27.27 00:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Andrei Sakharov's Philosophy
What was Sakharov's philosophy? I hear that he mentions socialism in the wikipedia text. But he must also have had a philosophy of design when, for example, designing the thermonuclear bomb design that is named after him. What did he see? How did he make sense of complex phenomena?
Did he forsee any philosophical problems with the the Universal Information System and how it would interact with human nature (I'm guess that he didn't think of Google and universal pornography systems). What were his views on human sexuality? Did he leave any personal notes/diaries to show that he lived as he preached and espoused (evidently, he must have had *some* moral fiber at least - else he would not have been capable of generating some of the technologies that he helped to generate....).
I think that some kind of a comparison to the article for Bertrand Russell would be useful here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
--AsSingh 20:25, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Well.. seems like he was a prophet..
- "In this pamphlet, advanced for discussion by its readers, the author has set himself the goal to present, with the greatest conviction and frankness, two theses that are supported by many people in the world. These are:
- 1. The division of mankind threatens it with destruction… Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization…
- 2. The second basic thesis is that intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship. Freedom of thought is the only guarantee of the feasibility of a scientific democratic approach to politics, economics and culture." (Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom, in The New York Times, July 22, 1968) [2]
- "I foresee a universal information system (UIS), which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have individual miniature-computer terminals, central control points for the flood of information, and communication channels incorporating thousands of artificial communications from satellites, cables, and laser lines. Even the partial realization of the UIS will profoundly affect every person, his leisure activities, and his intellectual and artistic development. …But the true historic role of the UIS will be to break down the barriers to the exchange of information among countries and people." (Saturday Review/World, August 24, 1974)
Well, maybe he was too much of a commie, but we call the UIS the Internet today, and no, books are not accessible like he describes, unless you are filthy rich, but at least Wikipedia is one step in the right direction. Sillybilly 14:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
