Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board

by Vince Houghton

There’s a great joke about Castro’s longevity. It goes like this: In some kind of diplomatic exchange, Castro is presented with the gift of a Galápagos turtle. He’s polite to the man, but he declines the turtle after learning that it might live for more than a hundred years. “That’s the problem with pets,” Castro says. “You get attached to them, and then they die on you.”