described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he gained eminence as one of the fathers of the soviet nuclear bomb.th he learned bodyguards and direct access to the pinnacle of the soviet system. this is where andre sakharov could have stayed in a very comfortable position, lived life in the upper echelons of the soviet system. but within a few years after he designed that giant hydrogen bomb, he instead started becoming a thorn in the side of the soviet leadership.in he urged the government to avoid a further arms race with the united states, fearing that it would lead to catastrophe. he argued publicly for political reforms and human rights and spoke out in defense of dissidents and even after he was arrested and sent into internal exile for years, he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1975. the soviet leadership, as you ts can imagine, they would not let him attend that ceremony. by the time mikhail gorbachev released him from exile, sakh
for this hour. rachel has the night off. we ll start off the night in classic rachel fashion. we go back to the archives here. it was october 30th, 1961. and on an island in the russian arctic sea, this happened. the soviet union detonated the most powerful nuclear device ever tested. it remains, believe it or not, til this day, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. i know this is going to sound almost impossible to comprehend. it was 3,333 times stronger, stronger, than the bomb that was actually dropped on hiroshima. because this was the height of the cold war, because it was at the height of the arms race between the soviet union and the united states, the men who designed this bomb, the men who brought the soviet union to this glory of having the strongest nuclear device in the world, as you can imagine, they were heroes. here is how one of those scientists, andre sakarov, was described in a new york times profile. in part it reads, a nuclear physicist, he g
the men the men who designed this bomb here is how soccer, was describing it in the new york times profile. in the stature of oppenheim, sucker off gained evidence naturally, easily, and early in life as one of the fathers of the soviet hydrogen bomb. his mediocre career earned in, fortune, private bodyguards and direct access to the pinnacle of the soviet system. and this is way andré soccer off could ve stayed. he could ve stayed in a very comfortable position and lived in the soviet system but within a few years after he designed that giant hydrogen bomb he instead became a thorn. he argued for political reforms, human rights, and spoke out of dissonance. and even after he was arrested and sentenced to a eternal exile for years, he was awarded the nobel peace prize in 1975. the soviet leadership, though, as you can imagine, did not let him attend that ceremony. and by the time the soviet leader released him from exile during the reforms of the late 1980s, law andei sak
arguments of it before the court when that happens on monday. we ll talk about how you can listen in on it and what the stakes are there. we ve got a lot to get to tonight. it s been a really big week in the news, it s been a big day in the news, but it s also friday. so are you ready for a story? i want to start with something that i promise you haven t heard anywhere else that has that has for which i have no competition elsewhere in the news media tonight. but this is absolutely fascinating to me. it s a friday night story, if ever there was one. all right. here we go. do you know what the streisand effect is? poor barbra streisand, nothing against her at all. but barbra streisand s name will be associated with this phenomenon until the end of time. i m sure it makes her crazy but it s almost unavoidable. it was almost 20 years ago where she brought a lawsuit. there was a collection of photographs that had been taken of the california coast. thousands of pictures all a
monday. we should be able to get oral arguments of that court case, here the arguments before the court, when that happens on monday. we re going to talk about how you can listen in on it and what the stakes are there. we ve got a lot to get to tonight. it s been a really big week in the news. a big day in the news. but it s also friday. so, are you ready for a story? [laughs] i want to start with something that promise you haven t heard anywhere else. for which i have no competition elsewhere in the news media tonight. this is absolutely fascinating to me. it s a friday night story, if ever there was one. all right. here we go. do you know what the streisand effect is? or barbara streisand s, really, nothing against her at all. but barbara streisand s name will be associated with this phenomenon until the end of time. and i m sure it makes her crazy but it s unavoidable at this point. it was almost 20 years ago now when she brought a lawsuit there was a collection of photo