Вызов науки

During the reforms we encountered a remarkable phenomenon: our country, which opened humanity's path to space and succeeded in peering into the secrets of the atomic nucleus by building nuclear power plants and nuclear icebreakers, lost its interest in science and was deprived of its source of strength and prospects—popular scientific literature. Why "strength"? Because without relying on scientific knowledge and on people standing at the edge of the unknown, leadership cannot make correct decisions. From Stalin's list of meetings it is clear that he spent many hours conversing with the creator of geochemistry, outstanding thinker Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky. The scientist convinced Stalin that uranium would become the main force of the 20th century and that atomic physics must be pursued most seriously. He also…