Brinkmanship

The Arms Race and the Space Race were apart of brinkmanship. In 1949 the H-bomb was created by J. Robert Openheimer, he was also involved in the building of the A-bomb. The first H-bomb to blow up was on November 1, 1952. A man by the name of John Foster Dulles was willing to go to the brink of war. Dulles was also an anti-communist. At this time Eisenhower and Khrushchev were the leader of the U.S. and the Soviets. And soon the CIA started to get involved, leading the nations to a conference in Geneva. At this meeting Eisenhower proposed the "open skies". The Space Race was also between the super powers in the early 1957. In this year on October Sputnik was launched by Russia. T o which America felt inferior, and launched a satellite right after, U-2. It was a secret launch that went about sputnik, and could took pictures of the other nations. Later on, all ended when the Soviets found out.