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By virtue of emerging through WWII as the only unscathed industrial power, the people of the USA seemed to have the evidence they needed to claim the greatest country in the world status. The atomic monopoly chiseled this notion in stone; at least until that stone was shattered by the Soviet Union's successful nuclear test ....perhaps the opening salvo in the Cold War. Understandably, the Americans reacted with fear, dismay and alarm
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With about the same level of panic as they did in 1957 when the Soviet Union put the first artificial satellite in orbit. In both cases naive intelligence assessments of Soviet technical/engineering abilities by the United States suggested it would be many years before the Soviet Union could do either.

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