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" The press is our chief ideological weapon." Nikita Khrushchev
- The Space Race and ICBMs
- About the size of a basketball and only made beeps
- People feared that atomic weapons would soon be delivered without airplanes
- This gave the USSR an upper hand and they began to demand concesssions- (ICBM) Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
- MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
- Nuclear submarines
- M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
- Pre-emptive Strike
- SAC (Strategic Air Command) planes flying 24 hours a day
Summary:
After the second world war and the retrieval of former Nazi scientists, work began on improving the V2 rocket and its intercontinental abilities. From this rocket science was formed and through it the ability the launch human objects into orbit. The first of these was sputnik, a small satellite that sent the west into a frenzy for fear of losing technological dominance. This also pushed further the idea of ICBMs through their advanced rocket delivery methods, meaning the two programs were one and the same.
After the second world war and the retrieval of former Nazi scientists, work began on improving the V2 rocket and its intercontinental abilities. From this rocket science was formed and through it the ability the launch human objects into orbit. The first of these was sputnik, a small satellite that sent the west into a frenzy for fear of losing technological dominance. This also pushed further the idea of ICBMs through their advanced rocket delivery methods, meaning the two programs were one and the same.