Andrei Sakharov was a star of the Soviet Union in the ’60s — a genius nuclear physicist who invented the hydrogen bomb.
But in 1968, he made a bold call for peace and began advocating for the disarmament of the very weapons he helped develop.
Watch it all unfold in the latest episode of Future History.
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