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What impact did Andrei Sakharov have on nuclear weapons?

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He designed several Soviet nuclear weapons, including the Tsar Bomba, the highest yield device ever tested. Later he became an important member of the antinuclear weapons movement in the USSR, which got him imprisoned.

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