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Americans and soviets where racing to be the first people to have the first human in space -
he USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. -
nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack -
the West and the Soviet Union using tactics of fear and intimidation as strategies to make the opposing side back down. -
U.S was able to send Neil Armstrong into space and he landed on the moon -
were a series of bilateral conferences and international treaties signed between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic