abdiasis amazing atomic abomb

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  • first US atomic bomb

    this began the threat of US nuclear superiority

  • USSR detonates their first atomic bomb

    End of US monopoly on atomic threat

  • America tests hydrogen bomb

    Also known as thermo-nuclear bomb, a significant power increse above a typical bomb

  • Massive Retailtion

    Idea announced by Eisenhower, fueled the idea of MAD

  • First ICBM missile launched by USSR

    Name the R-7 was a significant range increase.Posed a major threat to the US

  • Sputnik put into orbit

    Major soviet advance in space-race, moral shift, showed society that the USSR was a very strong world power.

  • US develop ICBM technology

  • U-2 Incident

    USAF spy aircraft shot down over USSR

  • First human spaceflight

  • First human spaceflight

  • McNamara proposed idea of counterforce

    Heavily criticized as only being preemptive.
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    Cuban MIssile Crisis

    Soviet missiles placed in Cuba, and US missiles in Turkey. End results were the withdrawal of missiles from Cuba and Turkey and the creation of the nuclear hotline.

  • Partial Test Ban Treaty

    Did not include China, but the other major world powers agreed to stop testing nuclear bombs anywhere but underground, partially because of the risk of nuclear fallout, and partially to slow the arms race and move towards détente