{"id":1546,"date":"2004-12-15T06:34:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-12-15T06:34:58","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T13:34:58","slug":"sakharov-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/15\/sakharov-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakharov Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>&quot;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/andrei-sakharov.info\/andrei-sakharov\/andrei-dmitrievich-sakharov-biography-pictures-photos-nobel-peace-prize-soviet-physicist-hydrogen-bomb-17.shtml\">Heroes are essential <\/A> to the improvement of society&quot; \u2013 and the 20<SUP>th<\/SUP>Century had such a hero in Andrei Sakharov, famed Soviet physicist and much, much more \u2013 fighter for human rights and democracy in the midst of that lethally minded and cold-souled tyrant, the former Soviet Union. December 14<SUP>th<\/SUP> was the 15<SUP>th<\/SUP> anniversary of his death. I suppose the need to wish that the 21<SUP>st<\/SUP> Century give rise to more heroes like Sakharaov speaks grimly about the underlying world situation, but for the sake of us all, I heartily hope others of equally strong intellect, courage, and moral conviction will be there when needed. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.aip.org\/history\/sakharov\/\">Here<\/A> and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/asf.wdn.com\/%20%20\">here<\/A> are more about Sakharov.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Heroes are essential to the improvement of society&quot; \u2013 and the 20thCentury had such a hero in Andrei Sakharov, famed Soviet physicist and much, much more \u2013 fighter for human rights and democracy in the midst of that lethally minded and cold-souled tyrant, the former Soviet Union. December 14th was the 15th anniversary of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}