Space Race and 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 concessions
ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles)
MIRVs (Multiple Independantly Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
- 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 concessions
ICBM (Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles)
MIRVs (Multiple Independantly Targeted Re-entry Vehicles)
Summary
_After the Soviets launched Sputnik into space, Americans began to fear that the Soviets could deliver atomic bombs without the use of airplanes (Missiles). This belief resulted in the following abbreviations being created: -MAD (mutually assured destruction),-MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targeted Re-entry Vehicles), and -Pre-emptive Strike (SAC).