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The Kitchen Debate
Background
In 1954, the Soviet Union launched the world's first satellite, called
Sputnik, into orbit. U.S. defense analysts went ballistic: Sputnik, they
said, could completely destroy NATO early-warning defense-systems. It was
called the "gravest threat to America in history." Soviet leader Khrushchev
rubbed in the accomplishment by handing President Eisenhower a replica of
Sputnik during a televised summit me |
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