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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music (393 words) |
 | The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. |
 | The institute was founded by Gersh Itskovich Budker in 1959. |
 | Following his death in 1977, the institute was renamed in honour of Academician Budker. |
| Third Generation Soviet Space Systems (6988 words) |
 | One direction was advocated by the Ministry of Radio Industry, which had managed the development of the Soviet ABM system since the late 1950's. |
 | Another approach was the use of neutral particle beam weapons, advocated by Gersh Budker at a secret institute in Novosibirsk. |
 | During the late 1960's and early 1970's Soviet research institutes, design bureaux, the Academy of Sciences, and the General Staff conducted numerous discussions and unofficial studies. |