The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
- In 1957 the Soviets launch the first Earth-orbiting satellite named Sputnik.
- 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
Subjunctive Question
Did this scare countries that the USSR had the "upper hand" ?
Summary
America began to fear Russia would be able to produce atomic weapons after they launched Sputnik into space for the first time. This resulted into the creation of MAD, MIRV's and finally SAC