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A visit to the Soviet Union’s Oppenheimer
It was hard to reconcile Andrei Sakharov’s shy, soft-spoken manner with his fame as the “father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb.” In late 1979, my companion Lies van Veen and I knocked on a Moscow apartment door, hoping Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner — the Soviet Union’s best known dissidents — would be home. Sakharov, then in his late 50s, opened the door.  We had come to the Soviet Union, we explained, on behalf of American human rights organizations, to meet with regime opponents and report on their plight. The Sakharovs were deeply upset over recent arrests of fellow dissidents. Their telephone line had gone dead. “You have come at a bad time for us,” he said. We sat aroun

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