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Arms and Space Race Timeline

US Arms Race

Drop Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

August 6, 1945

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Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis writes Truman to give priority to H-bomb

1949

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President Truman announces his decision to develop the hydrogen bomb

1950

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Truman confirms use of nuclear weapons in Korea being consideration.

1950

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Royal Air Force fly photographic and radar reconnaissance missions over Soviet

1952

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US Space Race

V-2 Rocket

9/3/1942

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1st Monkey in Space

June 11, 1948

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First American Satellite Enters Orbit Around Earth

1958

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Pioneer 3

December 6,1958

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Man on the Moon

1969

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SU Arms Race

Development of Hydrogen Bomb

July 1948

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First Soviet atomic bomb [first Soviet Test] is exploded in Kazakhstan.

1949

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Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov moves to Arzamas, the secret weapons lab.

1949

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Soviet Union conducts its second nuclear test, an improved plutonium bomb.

1950

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Soviet Premier Georgii Malenkov announces that USSR possesses hydrogen bomb.

1953

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SU Space Race

V-2 Rocket

1943

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Sputnik 1

Oct. 4, 1957

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Send Dog Up to Space

November 3, 1957

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Luna 1 is launched. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun.

1959

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Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.

1961

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