Stop Gap Interceptors: Countering the Atomic Bomb

When the Soviets successfully tested their first atomic bomb in August 1949, the U.S. found itself dangerously unprepared to meet the new threat. To say that the United States was unprepared for the dramatic expansion of Soviet military power during the immediate post–World War II period would be a gross understatement. No one could have …

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