Arms Race
3D presentation activity
Detail: The use of the bomb on Japan opened the door to nukes. No one really wants to use them, but the SU and others did not want to have them used on. This lead to the concept of MAD, but first the SU. Needed nukes of their own, so they went into over drive to make them.
Interesting facts: The Americans tested a bomb repellant system where they used a rocket to shoot shoot down another rocket, but it was faked.
Sputnic was the first object of its kind I. Space. It did not do much but the Americas where like o shoot, the Reds are ahead of us and rushed to match it.
Significance: The bombs that where made at the time have changed the world. None, in the Cold War, where used for mass destruction, but the fear was there. It has been a big deal in a lot of politics now days, keeping the nukes away from people who are not so sane with them.
But the space race has also brought in a lot of innovations.