HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nuclear Material, Kinda Funny, Government Simulation Game
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Propagandizing their political system with science: we"re more ahead . The soviets had the initial advantage to explore space. The mid 50s early 60s the soviet union was a state that couldn"t feed its own population and with the scientific competition was able to overcome these obstacles. Unless the us catches up to the ussr in terms of space exploration it would be seen to the world that the ussr is ahead of the us. Khrushchev"s thaw: the first time he allowed soviet scientists to participate in international meetings, 1955 the soviet and american scientists met face to face for the first time. In this conference, july 29 1955 in copenhagen, in order to honour the upcoming conference the. Showed how committed they were to science: having received approval from moscow in early august. 1955 the soviets would announce that they too would send a satellite into orbit.
