good afternoon. i called you about a memory. yes, well. leave. i'd like to speak to the editor. i'm listening to the editor. you know , i'm not a writer, do you think that writers today write all and sundry, but memories, please note this is a particularly genre. you fix it. if so, we

'll fix it. why don't you write names? no? statute of limitations, what is the statute of limitations? someone, maybe alive children? here, for example, you didn’t indicate your own, so we just don’t need it. you leave just a secretary after the war, i was hired by the authorities state security. i was directed to the secret object number 550 in the documents. it

was listed as the volga office of the head of construction of the ussr , our atomic bomb was created there. the best scientists of the country were gathered in these laboratories. i was introduced to yakov borisovich zeldovich. as i was informed, the object in development is complex and our employees failed to establish contact with it . you received my letter of apology, if not for

your letter, we would not be talking now, olga please, do not be angry with me. i'm like thumbelina want. to warm the heart of a small frozen swallow , so tender, so vulnerable. you know, come to me to drink tea, he immediately seemed strange to me, yes, and his biography was not entirely clear. he was born on march 8 , 1914 in minsk a few months later , probably due to the outbreak of the first world war. the family moved to petrograd father was a lawyer father's sister was arrested under a political article mother translator abroad her sister and parents lived in france. yes, and yakov zeldovich himself was married to the sister of an enemy

of the people, he did not have a higher education, but at the age of 25, he already defended his doctoral dissertation. well , since he was taken to the facility with such a biography. well , it means he is really needed here. as soon as the secret laboratory number two of the academy of sciences of the ussr was created in september of the forty-second year, its leader. igor vasilievich kurchatov invited the scientists khariton izildovich to his place. they were among the first to start nuclear development, but when intelligence reported on the successes of the americans , an order was received to urgently make the same bomb, the project was supervised by beria and everything. he reported stalin personally, our pre-war developments can give even better results than the americans? we know

about your work. what matters now is a very quick result. if the high-voltage pulse accelerator is located outside the charge, yes, but this would require placing an entire power plant on the bomb. i 'll think about how to do it. think in your free time. well, of course, of course, now it is important to calculate the shock waves and we need to deal with convergent spherical detonation, just on this

topic we have no information from intelligence. consider i'm starting from scratch, don't say, don't say, rather continue. and i already have some ideas about this, right? i saw that he worked day and night, writing down something in his notebook all the time, when i looked, i didn’t understand anything, only formulas and unfamiliar words zeldovich. i knew that few people understand their nuclear physics and even used it. this is our laboratory, in which we conduct the bulk of our experiments and equipment. here the good modern is not worse than. abroad so here we put leaves made from the substance of india and are called therefore. do you want to see something else? we've got one more room , let's go through, please. yesterday i understood about india. yes,

what do you know how to read books at night in front of your eyes? i want to help, do not seem to understand that you need to be more discreet and what i notice. after all, this is another young man. you don't understand that the rules here are completely different. we protect our homeland, and the rest of the world from war. and except for people like me, they won't. none. yes, there is irreplaceable people, imagine. anyway, i have to work.

uzeldovich's arrival at arzamas-16 was preceded by a scandal at the institute of chemistry and physics, where he worked. a public trial of scientists was being prepared there. do harm. like jews zeldovich. it fit perfectly into the image of the enemy of the people of that time. the date for the comrades' trial has already been set. the accused are the same . it's you and the japanese. you just have to admit that you wanted to openly publish a secret work on the study of gunpowder to repent, and this work is not secret secret. here it is encrypted. when we did it tonight, it doesn't matter when we did it, it smacks of betrayal, it's a diversion.

the leadership is already coming to meet you, taking into account your merits. do they promise that after public repentance you will be able to continue working at the institute? i'm resigning. and you won't get me there. the site was kept in the strictest secrecy. everyone was closely watched there, and all signed non-disclosure agreements were taken away. however, zeldovich. it seemed that he did not notice at work. of course, he did not disclose information, but in life acted like a split. it probably really

seemed to him that he was free, even that he lived with this field, when i reported that zeldovich had a relationship with a former prisoner, and now a free hired olga konstantinovna shiryaeva. i was told that this is even good. in short, see to it that no conversations no letters without us. and so, let him live in peace. for us now is the main thing. this is a product. it seemed strange to me that having connections abroad, zeldovich. he took a wife, a relative of the enemy of the people of the barbarians, konstantinovna, and survived with her

three children. and now he still lives with volna, but ask him about it. i took my time. and when i got to know yakov borisovich better, the question disappeared by itself. later i realized how desperate yakov borisovich was. he always stood up for the enemies of the people for the convicts. no wonder my boss said that someday this scientist runs. this method can be used to determine the compressibility and the equation of state. i have already checked the product here.

this means that this method can be used to check any other fissile materials, if the pressure area ten, until it seems you have invented a new direction of physics. it's amazing how quickly he could switch from talking to his work just talking about one thing. and then he began to write some formulas, then he told a joke, and a minute later he called someone, standing up for another acquaintance. who came up with this address moscow po box, 49?

i don’t know how they took it from the fortieth, so to the trace with my mother. you know, she left during the tsarist regime, so there is no connection with her. imagine her husband is a psychoanalyst. your the working day has long been over and there is nothing new to sit out here, and you must have carefully studied our affairs. what attitude hasn't improved?

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i will help you find an approach. i'm tired of listening. why is he always running after you? by the way, i looked at things here. request you can use

i'll find the approach myself. the fact that khariton's father died in the camp in the forty-second year. i did not tell zeldovich, nor did i tell him that the committee had the exact addresses of all his relatives, both here and abroad, but i did not give up trying to find the key to my ward. america , after all, they are far ahead of us , you think, and in vain the americans do not suspect. how far have we come in the theory of uranus fission

. shells famous katyusha as a front-line soldier, i knew what role katyusha played on advanced. and now i understand how important these strange people with their slide rules are. they are also soldiers and now they are on the front line. for a long time i

could not get used to the fact that explosions constantly sounded in the city. it was like the front more than once jumped up at night, then remembered where i was this experiment. it was the forty-ninth year and the scientists were in a great hurry. approaching the test, the atmosphere at the facility did not hesitate; in our office , spare doubles also became more active, that is, candidates for the places of our bespectacled men. if these if they fail, they will quickly be replaced, you know, they are indispensable to our country. so are you going to get rid of yours soon? here is daddy against him

from a denunciation of 48 years zeldovich, a non-party jew specialist in theoretical physics in his public activities is close to the group of academician landau, known for his nationalism , nihilistic attitude towards methodological problems and biased attitude towards many soviet scientists top secret of special importance to comrade stalin, we report to you comrade

stalin that through the efforts of a large team of soviet scientists, designers, engineers, leading workers and workers of our industry. as a result, four years of hard work completed your task to create a soviet atomic bomb on august 29 , 1949 at 4:00 am moscow time and at 7 am local time in the remote steppe region of the kazakh ussr 170 km west of the city of semipalatinsk at a specially built and equipped experimental test site obtained for the first time in the ussr, the explosion of an atomic bomb is exceptional in its destructive and striking power in syria. comrades, i report the signatures on the disclosure

of information about the test were selected from 2,883 people, including 712 workers directly involved in the test. new york on september 23, president roman announced that an atomic bomb had been detonated in the soviet union. on september 24, tass from a french press review of the unit thus 2 years after molotov declared that the secret of the atomic bomb no longer exists. roman had to admit it.

with what? don't you understand that it's not the end? it's not fun at all. but you can spend so much effort, we have fulfilled our duty. and if our work helps the world, that's what we wanted. understood. do you think we are not for peace, or what? he went through the whole war, but if we had such a thing, maybe we wouldn’t have fought.

well, how's the performance? hero of socialist labor congratulations. yakov borisovich apparently fell in love with this olga very much and even got out to bring her to her son, whom she had not seen since. true , he was able to do this only in may 50 after a successful test and assigning him another the title of hero of socialist labor, and then

information was received that olga was pregnant? when i reported this, she was called by the head of the internal affairs department of the object , shutov, and offered cooperation. olga refused , and at dawn they came to their house and took her away, then. for the first time i saw uzeldovich in the eyes. he wrote a letter raised money. some things were given to their son olga and the boy. one went to his mother. two days later, the convicts sent her to the stage.

only after some time did zeldovich gather his strength and wait to seek her return, since olga was not. even opened a case, he spent a lot of time just to find out where she was talking about the hassle of her return. he reached the very shore, meanwhile, work on new types and products continued at the facility. here he went into it with his head. maybe that

helped keep him from breaking down. at the moment of maximum compression of the plutonian charge yes, it is beautiful and risky, but this will not surprise us, the good work of yakov is good. the dimensions are the same as those of the americans, but the power is three times more impressive well through a week of testing, then we'll see. do you know how they joke in the army during a nuclear explosion, you need to hold the machine gun at outstretched arms so that the molten iron does not spoil government boots? products were tested one after another, improved, became more powerful, then they started talking about a new type of weapon - a hydrogen bomb. i learned that zeldovich was one

of the key figures. in the work on this weapon, their own developments in thermonuclear reactions. he and khariton led in the forty-eighth year in parallel with the americans and soon. these developments come in handy. soviet scientists are ready to meet the challenges of american imperialism on november 1, 1952 , the united states detonated the first thermonuclear charge of a structure the size of a three-story house on august 13, 1953 at 7:30 at the semipalatinsk test site, a successful test of the product was carried out. rds-6s compact projectile could destroy a city with a diameter of 8 km. and the creation

of booms turned into a deadly conveyor, which had no end or edge. zel'dovich told me that the power of hydrogen weapons could be increased almost indefinitely. once i found a scientist in tears olga she survived and gave birth to a girl in cold magadan in january right on the floor of barak zeldovich, she decided to adopt a child. i do not know how he explained this to his wife, but it seems that she has long been accustomed to the fact that this man lives by his own rules. do you understand? as the supply agent of the volga river shipping company

, i don't need a secretary, what? at the moment when i check the confinement of ultrafine neutrons. in a vessel with reflective walls thanks, he is trying to find out from me what is the essence of lepton charges? well this is no gate, in general, let's be respectful. and blue outlook no one no firewood tongues of flame do you know

what fire is? what else is this irregular random features of the processes of free combustion in the atmosphere. i developed the theory of combustion for katyushas and for katyushas , ​​too. well, for this. the main thing is working now, right? what is the main thing, if the weapon, the main thing, is further, what will happen? no, someday i will do a big explosion, even more than now much. you know what began the formation of our universe. there will be some miracles instead of me now. say

yes too many explosions. the successes of the soviet union in the development of atomic weapons , they established parity in the world and forced the superpowers to talk about nuclear deterrence on october 30, 1961 at the test site of the archipelago. novaya zemlya successfully tested a 58-megaton pump. the shock wave circled the earth three times, the world finally realized the danger of the nuclear game. the tsar bomb put an end to the nuclear arms race of the superpowers.

decided yes, i can’t do it anymore, you know why is it being done? do you know what they say? there are two men waist-deep in gasoline, one has three matches, the other has five. but if you leave, it will be a big loss, i decided everything, you decided everything, and at the top that they decide, they think they will let you go. the guarantee was not prepared for two options, the unrealistic one would be released and it seems true, the arrest, even considering that khrushchev had been in power for a long time,

the prostalin was taken out of the mausoleum and the first curator of the beria project in our department. no one remembered the folder with zeldovich's file on the boss's desk, lying on top. what do you think he really want? always a surprise so you vouch. well, he has so many children after all. what care must be taken? our last meeting with zeldovich at

the facility was almost accidental. thanks, i just heard a joke here. maybe you'll find out, well, try it. here is the tsarist army when they told a joke. the major twice when he heard him, when the general understood him three times when he heard him, when they explained to him. because i received the adoption papers for anna of our

daughter. and where are they now? well, after rehab allowed to return to moscow live in dachas, in the suburbs, nevertheless achieved, i always achieve. heard want to leave? i don't want to, but i'm leaving. but the decision has not yet been made. are you still taking risks? when i was informed that they had given permission upstairs to let dildovich go, i did not immediately believe it. i thought about how it became, perhaps i did not find an answer for many years, after zeldovich others also left. however, only the most important ones were released a little. why is this? i understand? you are much later. that's just reading,

very very even. listen, i wanted to ask what happened to olga i mean after her rehabilitation. yes wait a second. i am writing after the death of varvara pavlovna, this is zeldovich's wife, right? which seventy-six? what are you talking about? will you marry me?

how are these yours? explosions, you know. that's the only thing she could endure. me not. when he was able to publish his work in foreign journals, his foreign colleagues were sure that

a whole group of scientists was hiding behind the pseudonym zeldovich, so diverse were his interests. he was immediately elected a member of the ten foreign academies of sciences and learned societies in 1964. jacob borisovich officially transferred to the institute of applied mathematics of the ussr academy of sciences and engaged in space exploration. and, apparently, he has made great strides. i once was at his lecture, service pass. made it possible to get into a crowded room. the theory of motion founded by me in 1970 shows that in the beginning small concentrations are formed, but of great density. the so-called pancakes are half of what he was talking about. i didn’t understand quarks, quasars are black holes that connect different universes, i remember funny name theory pancakes zeldovich. he talked about the big explosion that created the universe, as he

dreamed around the campfire then. he found an explosion that didn't destroy by listening to it. i thought that this person found his own foothold in this vacuum. yes, you know, this is very interesting. i will tell you, as an editor, that an extremely interesting book of edits can turn out of this, a little, especially only stylistic ones. sorry hello , there will be no publication. listen, well.

times can change? you know i have personal question for you? you said that you did not want to let go of the nuclear project. such. why did you let go anyway? and who said he was released? the partial orbital bombardment system makes it possible to place projectiles carrying nuclear warheads in near-earth orbit and direct them to any target.

if there was an opportunity, go back in time, so that you tell yourself.