National security is the US administration's most frequently cited reason for discouraging academic exchanges with China. But after the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957 created fears in Washington that
, suggests these territorial aggrandizement initiatives simply put the US today in the same league as Russia and China: In the news conference, Trump proposed getting rid of the “artificially drawn line” between Canada and the United States. Of course, that is precisely what President Vladimir ...
has reached a new “Sputnik moment” in which the military must act to keep the nation’s competitive advantage in space against adversaries such as Russia, China, and to a lesser extent, Iran and North Korea, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Monday. Gen. Joseph Dunford ...
After a period of shunning homework at the turn of the 20th century, the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1 spurred an urgent U.S. focus on schoolchildren's workloads.
In the 1950s, the US and Soviet Union raced to launch a satellite. The Soviets won in 1957, marking the start of the space age. The name of their satellite, Sputnik, translated into “fellow traveller”, or companion to Earth. Fellow traveller was also cold-war speak for Communist sympat...
If the struggle for legitimacy has only begun, the US Space Forcehas at least won acceptance by a majority of the public. However, acceptance is not the same as legitimacy. The new armed service could be re-absorbed into the US Air Force without the public voicing opposition. Imagine the ...
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Sputnik and 1957: Fearful Sights and from Heaven Great Signs? For a brief time, Mike Tussin was a roommate of mine. He drove me nuts in taking literally the admonition to read God’s Word “in an undertone day and night.” In time, he learned that he had better not do it in my ...