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... United States and the USSR . Let me remind you of a piece of recent history : in the early 1960s , there was a vigorous campaign in the United States claiming that the USSR was far in advance in the development of intercontinental ...
... United States and the USSR . Let me remind you of a piece of recent history : in the early 1960s , there was a vigorous campaign in the United States claiming that the USSR was far in advance in the development of intercontinental ...
Page 47
... United States- by 1981 , roughly 860 against 420 , and the numerical disparity is increasing . Does this mean , as many in the West claim , that the Soviet Union has a more aggressive space program than the United States ? Not ...
... United States- by 1981 , roughly 860 against 420 , and the numerical disparity is increasing . Does this mean , as many in the West claim , that the Soviet Union has a more aggressive space program than the United States ? Not ...
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... United States possessed recon- naissance satellites , there was a great outcry in the Soviet Union about these " illegal spy devices ; " indeed , in 1962 it proposed to the United Nations that they be banned . But it reversed itself ...
... United States possessed recon- naissance satellites , there was a great outcry in the Soviet Union about these " illegal spy devices ; " indeed , in 1962 it proposed to the United Nations that they be banned . But it reversed itself ...
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