Background
Velikhov, Evgenii was born in 1935.
Velikhov, Evgenii was born in 1935.
Graduated from Moscow University in 1958.
Doctor of Physico-Mathematical Science in 1964. Member of staff of the Institute of Atomic Energy from 1958. Head of the Laboratory, 1962-1970.
Deputy director, then director of a branch of the same institute from 1971. Joined
the Communist Party in 1971. Professor at Moscow University from 1973.
Leading expert on space weapons. Adviser to the Kremlin. Accompanied Gorbachev on his visit to Britain.
Vicepresident of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Speaks perfect English.
Religiously inspired people justify violence, resist social changes, and attack on science.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1974.