ANDREI DIMITRIEVICH SAKHAROV Synonyms

• a person who dissents from some established policy

• characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

• disagreeing, especially with a majority

• someone who is the first to think of or make something

• (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy

• of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom

• of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell

• constituting or like a nucleus

• a scientist trained in physics

• of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people

• an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

• of trade unions

• an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer

• the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War)

• the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes

• the state of being joined or united or linked

• the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)

• healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones

• a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations

• a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets

• the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts

• a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)

• the act of making or becoming a single unit

• being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War

• any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting

• a means of persuading or arguing

• Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)

• Soviet physicist and dissident; helped develop the first Russian hydrogen bomb; advocated nuclear disarmament and campaigned for human rights (1921-1989)