1948 – truman elected the ussr joins the “nuclear club” august 1949
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1948 – Truman Elected
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The USSR joins the “Nuclear
Club”
August 1949
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ARMS RACE
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1st Hydrogen Bomb (H-bomb)
“ ”1952
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Tested on coral island (Bikini Atoll) in Pacific
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Mike fireball seconds after detonation
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1/2 hour after test...
60 mls45,000 ft.
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Election 1952 – Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President
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March ‘53: Stalin dies
Nikita Khrushchev
becomes next Soviet
leader
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Focus on air power & nukes instead of
costly ground troops & navies
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A smaller army & navy required new way of fighting communism
Ike consults with John
Foster Dulles
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Sec of State
Dulles proposes
policy of...
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If Soviets launch nuke at any nation the US would respond with one at them!
Idea: Make Soviets think
twice
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This leads the 2 superpowers to...
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Push enemy to brink of war
Not backing down from a conflict
Nukes or nothing!
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1953: Soviets create H-Bomb
No US advantage!
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Remember me?
Robert J. Oppenheimer
Here is my
analogy of the
situation
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Mutually Assured
Destruction
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Country has enough bombs to insure that
she can destroy enemy
even if they have more
bombs!
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Game Game OverOver
There is NO winner…There is NO winner…everyone loses!everyone loses!
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Do you realize the impact of
this?
We wage peace the same way we wage war...
show strength...take risks...make enemy think you will attack
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H-bomb nicknamed Bravo detonated by U.S. in South Pacific
March 1, 1954
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Bikini Atoll (again) contaminated with
radiation
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Bravo explosion
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Bravo hydrogen bomb crater now
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Japanese fishing boat 80
miles away covered in radioactive
ash (fallout)
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Also, all fishermen got radiation poisoning!
People realized they could be
harmed by nukes (& TESTS) even from far away
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Fallout shelters in the backyard?
Many public buildings became
designated fallout
shelters
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Ike’s “open skies” ideaBoth nations would inspect each other’s military sites from airPlan died but at least
they were talking
1954
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Sputnik: ‘57
Americans freaked (arms race = higher gear)
Small satellite
launched by USSR
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Why did Sputnik cause such a panic?
1- Showed Soviets were ahead in the arms race
2-Soviets smarter than us?
3-If they can launch
this…?
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What did we do about it?
US launched new education
initiative stressing math
& science
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Federal $$$ went to education in hopes we would train our kids & keep up with
Soviets
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ICBM: Inter-
Continental Ballistic Missile
50’s: BOTH SIDES MAKE: