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...boastful and rich uncle called his Sputnik Vanguard...
Soviet newspapers did not tell the world about any Sputnik misfires that may have preceded the first successful launching of an artificial earth satellite. This is the difference between an open government of the people and the closed rule of a police state...
...military threat posed by Sputnik is immense, immediate and sobering. But in the larger range of history, the graver threat is that the Soviet Union has shown itself capable of briefly surpassing the West at its strongest point-the ability of a free society to outthink and outdo Communism's driven men. This was a challenge to the very basis of the West's civilization itself, and its hope of organizing a peaceful world on the principles it held to be self-evident...
...summit conference will almost certainly produce a pledge of closer political collaboration; if meticulously honored, it could create a state of mind that would rule out recurrences of the Suez breach. What is at stake is less the immediate problem of the West's defense against all that Sputnik threatens; rather, it is a rallying of the whole non-Communist West, now temporarily demoralized, to meet the Russian challenge...
...force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises: "The Soviets will almost certainly have a strategic ballistic missile in this period." "The Soviets have announced intentions of launching an earth satellite in 1957. Western scientists credit them with this capability...