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Brinkmanship
The term is chiefly associated with John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State from 1953 to 1956 during the Eisenhower administration. Dulles sought to deter aggression by the Soviet Union by warning that the cost might be massive retaliation against Soviet targets. -
Space Race
The space race played a significant part in the Cold War as the Americans and Soviets competed to prove their technological and intellectual superiority by becoming the first nation to put a human into space. -
Sputnik Launch
the Soviet Union inaugurated the Space Age with the launch of Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. -
M.A.D
The threat of Mutual Assured Destruction. This theory assumed that each superpower had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the other. If one superpower attempted a first strike on the other, they themselves would also be destroyed. -
1st Man on Moon
Neil Armstrong and later Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while their crewmate Michael Collins continues to orbit the Moon aboard Apollo 11. -
SALT
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. These treaties had the goal of reducing the number of long-range ballistic missiles -
Star Wars
Ronald Reagan announced the launch of a vast technological program known as the Strategic Defense Initiative or Star Wars the United States would be protected from enemy nuclear weapons by a space based shield that would detect and destroy enemy ballistic missiles.