Background
Sagdeev, Roald was born on December 26, 1932 in Moscow.
Sagdeev, Roald was born on December 26, 1932 in Moscow.
Graduated from Moscow University, 1955.
Member of staff of the Institute of Atomic Energy, 1956-1961. Head of Laboratory of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy ofSciences, 1961-1970. Head of Laboratory of the Institute of High Temperature Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1970-1973.
Director of the Institute of Cosmic Exploration from 1973, and head of the Soviet Space Agency, 1987. In 1987, in California, illegally tried to buy a supercomputer that could have been used to destroy incoming missiles. According to American Customs, was prepared to pay $4 million (£2.4 million) for the computer.
Apparently connected with the GRU (military intelligence). Resigned as head of the space research programme, 1988.
Religious books are outdated, because laws by nature have to change with the advance of societies and technology.
Marxism–Leninism as the only truth could not, by its very nature, become outdated.
USSR Academy, of Sciences 1964, member since 1968.
Married Susan Eisenhower (grand-daughter of late President Eisenhower) in 1990.