Andrei Sakharov once described Igor Kurchatov as a man whose most pronounced trait was his fascination with "grand" science. The physicist who headed the Soviet nuclear program from 1943 until his ...

HIDDEN away in the frosty Kazakhstan planes lies nuclear hell on earth - a wasteland pockmarked with craters, abandoned bunkers and even an "atomic lake". Kurchatov is the most nuked placed on the ...

Igor Kurchatov, the Father of the Soviet Atomic programme, later designed for Joseph Stalin another wipe-out weapon, the hydrogen bomb. A lunar crater and an asteroid are named after him.

The central event of the third day of the school was a lecture by Maxim Patrushev, head of the Kurchatov Genomic Center at ...

Much of Kurchatov has been empty since the Russians left Empty buildings are everywhere, even at the town's core where a statue of founder Igor Kurchatov towers over a pleasant-looking square. But Mr ...

Obninsk celebrates the 79th anniversary of the world’s first nuclear power plant launched on June 26, 1954 under the leadership of Academician Igor Kurchatov OBNINSK, June 26. /TASS/.