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The launch of Sputnik 50 years ago almost triggered a nuclear World War III. Global catastrophe was averted, however, because of a private agreement between two ex-generals. Now, with the help of ...
Sputnik’s launch impelled an unprecedented expansion in America's support for scientific research and education in the face of a technological threat that caught us by surprise. Fifty years later, we ...
After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age (Smithsonian Books, Washington, 2007). Google Scholar Dickson, P. Sputnik: Shock of the Century (Walker, New York, 2001).