The Cold War Reaction #1

The "Missile Gap," much like the supposed gap between your belly and your pants depends on perception. The perception of the average American in the late 1950's was that the US was on the wrong end of the missile gap and the Soviets, (thanks to the boisterous sausage claims of Nakita Krhushchev), were dominating the worlds missile program. The evidence seemed clear with such achievements as Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin the Soviets seemed to be winning the gap battle. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. The US was in fact was far ahead of the Soviets in missile and bomber production. This fact, the clandestine truth held by the Eisenhower administration, and the subsequent chain events connected to this fact was quite interesting. Knowledge is power even if the other guy doesn't know you know. Thoughts