almost all the ideas of american inferiority to the russia/ussr in the realms of aeronautics/nuclear rocketry comes from a brief period roughly 1956-1961, when policy was being run by retards. herman kahn's "on thermonuclear war" illustrated the deficits and the american mic immediately responded by becoming outrageously advanced. within a decade, america went from being seriously threatened by russia's nuclear and space capabilities to winning the space race and achieving total technological superiority for all time.
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