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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were a large number of rocket scientists who were either unemployed or unpaid. A major risk of this situation was transfer of the knowledge that these scientists and engineers possessed being bought in by unstable regimes or regimes that were hostile to the USA. By employing these workers on the largest space project of all time, they were occupied, paid, and unavailable to hostile countries. If nothing else, the ISS has prevented missile production by countries that might initiate undesirable military action against the west.

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