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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
Yet, at the time (1954), no country on earth had delivery systems capable of dropping nuclear weapons upon the continental United States. Indeed, the launch of Sputnik I in 1957 was the first indication that any country had anything near such capability.
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Was watching a documentary earlier this week about a mid-1950s NAVY program to design fighter and bomber jet engine sea-planes because duh, there were no nuclear air-craft carriers. Also talked about how the bombers could deliver nuclear bombs, duh, there were no long range missiles let alone nuclear submarines. Moral of the story, even though nuclear war was more likely to happen in the 1950s than after, the contemporary nuclear weaponry and technology is much much scarier
