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The next morning, Hathaway went to visit a friend who was a defense attaché in the embassy. “What the hell is look-down, shoot-down radar?” Hathaway asked, getting right to the point. The friend replied, “Are you kidding? That’s one of the most important damn things in the world!”18 Such a radar would allow Soviet aircraft at a higher altitude to spot low-flying planes or missiles against the contours of the earth. At the time, it was believed the Soviet warplanes lacked the capability; the MiG-25 flown by Belenko did not have it. Moreover, Soviet ground-based radars also couldn’t see targets at low altitude, and the United States had spent years preparing to exploit this vulnerability, either with low-altitude bombers or with advanced cruise missiles to fly under the Soviet radars.
The Billion Dollar Spy
David E. Hoffman
Just imagine that the purpose of your life is your happiness only—then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing. You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity, your intellect, and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world. Then life becomes a constant joy.
A Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy and Peter Sekirin
Anthropologists believe that sugarcane itself was first domesticated in New Guinea about ten thousand years ago. As evidence that it was revered even then, creation myths in New Guinea have the human race emerging from the sexual congress of the first man and a stalk of sugarcane.
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes
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