The Soviet Union did not have the financial muscle to compete with the USA in space in the sixties and was to take a back seat in space exploration. That was a pity, because the Russians built the International Space Station in 1993, after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, said to be in co-operation with the USA and many other countries. However, the Soviet Union was also the first to send a man into space in 1961, beating the USA. That was why the USA probably invented the moon landing in 1969, when John F. Kennedy threw down the gauntlet to NASA to do something to take back the USA's lost pride. Many we not convinced that the USA really went to the moon. It was more like the moon in a Hollywood Studio. Had the Russians not be constrained by financial reasons, it would never have lost the real space race to the moon.
China on the other hand is financially stronger to do better than the Soviet Union and is giving the USA a run for the money today. The rescue of the two stranded astronauts on the International Space Station has been made into a song and dance by the USA. Much ado about nothing really in the hands of the Russians or the Chinese. Hollywood will probably do a blockbuster over the fiasco.
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However, many people are of the opinion that the USA had to test the two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show the world it is ahead of the Soviet Union in having nukes. The Japanese are just the guinea pigs for an experiment. Did they also say that when elephants fight, the grass suffers?
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