| Andrei Sakhorov's Cake Stand | |
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Origin |
Andrei Sakhorov |
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Type |
Cake Stand |
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Effects |
Disarms nuclear weaponry through displacement of fissile material |
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Downsides |
Homewards incarceration and banishment |
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Activation |
Placing a component in the dish |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
943814-2821 |
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Shelf |
376210-9426-568 |
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Date of Collection |
July 7, 2006 |
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Origin[]
Andrei Sakhorov (21 May 1921 – 14 December 1989) was a Russian nuclear physicist, dissident, Nobel laureate, and activist for disarmament, peace and human rights. Many breakthroughs in early Soviet design solutions came from his designs. The RDS-37 was their first two-stage hydrogen bomb, which used a shell of unenriched uranium around a deuterium (hydrogen isotope) center. Once compressed with x-rays, the alternating layers would continue any fusion reaction. The sloyka, or layer cake model, lessened the gap between American and Russian nuclear advancements.
Among his other nuclear feats was early ideas for the tokamak, a torus shaped reactor that controlled ionized plasma with magnetic fields. To compress fields further, he invented the explosively pumped flux compression generator, to deliver a strong pulse in single-use explosives. He also studied the baryon asymmetry where time always moved forwards and matter outnumbered antimatter. As proposed from the curvature of space there should exist two separate universes, with opposite conditions. Any singularities where both planes interacted would be a collapse, later known as wormholes.
But his defining notoriety came from an intense activist mantra against nuclear proliferation and government corruption. The 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty to stop airborne nuclear tests was partially at Sakhorov’s urging. He penned a defense memo for rejecting antiballistic development from both nations; his advice was ignored. Later texts reached the underground press and his military access was revoked, where he became an open critic of Soviet leadership.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 but was under state exile in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) at the time, so his wife Yelena Bonner gave the acceptance speech (and later joined him). For the last few years of his life, the policy of openness under Gorbachev allowed him to meet with many world leaders. The Sakharov Prize was established in his name to honor those who defended human rights and freedoms.
Effects[]
Renders nuclear weapons inert and unable to deliver an explosive charge. Will react the same way to atomic energy plants undergoing critical failure, but not during regular operations. Just place any component on the pedestal and it will respond to the corresponding missile.
Like Sakhorov’s theory of universal expansion, all the uranium and other radioactive elements are scattered for hundreds, possibly thousands of meters in all directions. Enough distance to diffuse any chance of fissile reactivity. Reports indicate feeling a large shockwave emanating from the device, after which no major radioactivity above background levels can be traced. How it prevents any charges from combusting is still unknown.
To continue with his displacement and antimatter theories, the activator is physically repelled from their home. Weakness that only clears up when there are full states between their location and bed. It also worsens whenever they approach national borders, meaning they’re effectively stuck in whichever midway points they find.