…large distances to kill an obscene number of people. The United States is further stunned by the first orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut carrying a soviet passport, although he didn't need the passport to do it there not being any customs…

…most serious aspect of it was that here the soviets had demonstrated a heavy lift capability which if it could lift Yuri Gagarin into earth orbit it could certainly lift a thermonuclear weapon halfway around the planet. And so the key concern about the…