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Preston MacDougall: Chemical Eye on RAGS Redux for Breakfast
By | November 29, 2008
1957 wasn’t a Leap Year, and it wasn’t the Year of the Frog (there is no Year of the Frog in the Chinese calendar). But you might call it the Year of the Leap Frog, since 1957 was the year that the Soviet Union responded to a streak of 20th century American technological successes, which culminated powerfully in the weaponization of nuclear forces - in 1945 with plutonium, and in 1952 with hydrogen. How did the Russians respond? By conquering the force of gravity with the launch of Sputnik.
Source:Preston MacDougall: Chemical Eye on RAGS Redux for Breakfast
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