Timeline for Could the Soviet Union have hidden the launch of the first satellite?
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| May 16, 2022 at 8:26 | vote | accept | Andrey Godyaev | ||
| S May 15, 2022 at 14:48 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
fix awkward grammar: the Soviet Union cannot hide (Present Simple) anything right now, because it does not exist in the present.
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| May 13, 2022 at 9:16 | answer | added | user81881 | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 13, 2022 at 2:34 | comment | added | Seth R | The bigger question is why would they want to keep it secret? The whole point was to show the world the superiority of Soviet technological prowess. They wanted everyone to know. No one even heard the BEEP until they told them what frequency to tune in to. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 22:18 | comment | added | Mazura | Giving the entire world the finger by making it go beep was the whole point. If they DIDN'T make it go beep would any know except the CCCP? | |
| May 12, 2022 at 20:09 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 12, 2022 at 16:03 | history | edited | jdunlop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2022 at 15:56 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 14:10 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 13:29 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | @ Dragongeek They did not have ICBM's or satellites until Sputnik. Sputnik was the first. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 13:21 | answer | added | Justin Thyme the Second | timeline score: 36 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 13:05 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 12:35 | comment | added | Dragongeek | iirc, the US already had operational and functional early warning radar systems in the 1950s that could detect satellites and other ICBMs | |
| May 12, 2022 at 12:29 | answer | added | Trish | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 12:29 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 12, 2022 at 12:20 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ |
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| May 12, 2022 at 12:09 | history | asked | Andrey Godyaev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |