Sputnik Challenge, The limits by Richard Harrigan

by Richard Harrigan

The Fit Swimmer addresses all these in an informative and entertaining way

called here the Mask of Camelot

and that it elucidates the connections between them

a new world emerged from the dust and haze of battle

Sputnik Challenge, The limits by Richard HarriganOn October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184 pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor," and magazine articles appeared with such headlines as "Are We Americans Going Soft?" In the White House, President Eisenhower seemed to do nothing, leading Kennedy in 1960