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Closely together. The participants of this Extraordinary Program now speak for the first time. That russia did. You know and the rivalry of the cold war was intense for more than four decades america and the u. S. S. R. Squared off against each other. Unbeknown to its participants at the time of the cold war to validate the keys to help us understand the biggest threat to our survival. Climate change. Surface to surface missiles the soviet navy has been heavily armed with both often to surface to surface and surface to air missile. The cold war wasnt only about the number of weapons. Intelligence gathering was at the heart of the cold war. Space provided the ultimate sanctuary for the dozens of spy satellites that orbited the earth. With code names like corona hexagon and land yacht or on the russian side called moss glass and senate. They were designed to peer at the enemy relentlessly in super fine detail in every way flint imaginable. One of the key targets for american spy satellit
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