Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Objectives. Thus Khrushchev translated the new world prestige of Sputnik and the world's fears of Red missiles into one, specific, power-political threat to an area that the Communists have long and unsuccessfully sought to domi nate. He sought to intimidate NATO Partner Turkey, which is menaced by Russia on the north and by an increasingly Red Syria on the south (see FOREIGN NEWS). He sought to feel out the temper of the NATO nations and discover whether the U.S.'s European allies would stand by the U.S. He also sought to make an impressive power play...
...Communists were exploiting their brand-new Sputnik to achieve their old Middle Eastern objectives. "People of the whole world are pointing to the satellite," crowed Nikita. "They are saying that the U.S. has been beaten...
...assured by week's end that a missile speedup was inevitable (see below), moved to meet Khrushchev's crude power play with a readiness to use power, if necessary. How to preserve that power and that diplomatic capability five to ten years hence, in the face of Sputnik's warning, was the heart of the sober second thought in Washington last week...
...lota." At week's start, the President called a three-hour White House meeting of scientific and military advisers. They brought him up to date on Sputnik, with particular attention to the spectacular and ominous rocket-thrust required to push so heavy a satellite into outer space...
...Dwight Eisenhower had ever faced. The President had backed both the defense budget and the missile program, but the loudest noise in the defense area in recent weeks had been made by Charlie Wilson genially hacking away at military expenditures that he had let get out of hand. Militarily, Sputnik, plus Khrushchev's bold rocket-rattling, gave a bald warning about the grim missile race to come. Beyond all this, the President was bound to bear the brunt of a special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride in its technical skills and technological prowess, in its ability...