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The Missile Gap: A Moral Panic for an Atomic Age
… by grassroots concern over the technical gap represented by Sputnik 1's launch was utilized by interested actors to accomplish their goals. During the second phase, this concern transformed into an institutional technique utilized for deflecting institutional challenges when the moral …
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U. S. and Soviet security policy and the "Missle Gap": Controversy, origins, and impact
A theme central to this thesis is that the missile gap controversy resulted from varied and repeated misconceptions by the Soviet and American participants. Reciprocal misinterpretations of actor’s intentions and capabilities during the 1957-1961 period led to an essentially reactive pattern of …