1. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
2. Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb
3. Massive retaliation, also known as a massive response or massive deterrence, is a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack.
4. Mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
5. The feat proved the Soviet Union's technological bonafidesand spurred the United States into stepping up its game in space
6. An intercontinental ballistic missile is a missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery
7. The space race was a series of competitive technology demonstrations between the United States and the Soviet Union, aiming to show superiority in spaceflight
8. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, established in 1958 quickly sucseeded the National Advisory Comittee for Aeuronotics as soon as it was established. It was a popular running space program for human space motion and contained much information about our solar system. NASA still runs to this day and is known as one of the greatest space exploration programs in America.
