An excerpt from an academic paper about the Cold War missile gap between the US and USSR, 2011.

This excerpt features part of an academic paper about the missile gap, or imbalance of missiles and missile technology, between the two superpowers, the US and USSR. The paper also addresses the perceived imbalance of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles between the Soviets and Americans. This segment of the paper describes the espionage involved in the Space Race and how US satellites were used to take photographs of Soviet technology.

Citation Information
Excerpt from “Penetrating the Iron Curtain: resolving the missile gap with technology,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/326d34bbd40b7b7b02c520a703eab125.
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Courtesy of University of Michigan via HathiTrust.

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