Speculative Paper by N Kardashev and a Sakharov

Summary

This two-page Intelligence Information Report from the Directorate of Intelligence, country USSR, was distributed 10 April 1972 and is based on a US citizen's abstracts from a letter written by a reliable colleague who attended the Conference on the Origins of Life in Yerevan, Armenia, USSR, held 6-8 September 1971. At the conference, N. S. Kardashev of the Institute for Space Research in Moscow read an interesting but highly speculative paper he had prepared with internationally famous theoretical physicist Andrei D. Sakharov on general relativity and the possibility of a body collapsing into a black hole in space. The report notes Kardashev's approach resembles that of his superior and former teacher, I. S. Shklovskiy. Information is marked unevaluated.