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With the Russians launch of sputnik, it awewd and worried the rest of the world. The US espeacially because if they could lauch a rocket into space then could they lauch nuclear weapons at us. so the race for being the country with the best advancements was on to have an advatage over everyone else so that if it came to war they would be prepared.

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Q: What was the significance the space race had on the cold war?
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