Roosevelt announced the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the USSR on 16 November, and appointed William C. Bullitt as the first Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
When news of the incident reached the Soviet Union, party leader Leonid Brezhnev wrote to Carter condemning the ‘tremendous danger’ caused by the error.
Flying at 45,000 feet, Yeager reached Mach 1.06 or approximately 700 miles per hour over the Rogers Dry Lake of the Mojave Desert in California.
The first printed note to feature ‘In God We Trust’ was the updated one-dollar silver certificate that entered circulation on 1 October 1957.
Nuclear war was avoided when Russian officer Stanislav Petrov rejected early warning system reports of incoming ballistic missiles as a false alarm.
‘The eventual development of this new force by other nations was to be expected. This probability has always been taken into account by us’.
The Moscow–Washington hotline entered operation, providing a direct link between the Kremlin and the Pentagon.
The explosion had the power of 22 kilotons of TNT, and was 50% more destructive than its designers had expected.
Over the following years the barbed wire and mesh barrier that was constructed overnight was gradually replaced with a virtually impregnable ring of reinforced concrete that ran 155km around West Berlin.
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a secret trip to China to meet with Premier Zhou Enlai.
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