Departmental Papers (HSS)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
10-4-2007
Publication Source
Science Progress
Abstract
It is not an anniversary we usually celebrate and it was not any fun for the United States at the time. Fifty years ago today, on the night of October 4, 1957, a 22-inch aluminum ball, primitive by today's standards, sent the American public, and the policy and scientific elite, into high crisis.[1]
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This material, "Sputnik, Cold War Nostaliga, and 9/11: The Lessons of Sputnik post-9/11," was published by the Center for American Progress.
Recommended Citation
Lindee, S. M. (2007). Sputnik, Cold War Nostalgia, and 9/11: The Lessons of Sputnik post-9/11. Science Progress, Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/hss_papers/14
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Date Posted: 24 October 2017
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