Eisenhower's Sputnik moment : the race for space and world prestige /
"In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics...
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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