The American Military, Intelligence, Defense Complex Used Sputnik As An Excuse To Make More Money

In doing this research it has become very clear that the Russians were never a threat to the United States. This was especially true in the 1950's. America was ahead of the Soviets in every manner. America had forward bases in Germany which could be used to deliver nuclear weapons by B-36 and B-50 bombers. America controlled the world's oceans. America had probably orbited the Earth in the 1940's in fact some of the Project Blue Book information supports this contention. America was developing very heavy lifting nuclear rocket motors in the 1940's. America under President Eisenhower was bullying the Soviet Union with overflights. While the Soviets did test a nuclear weapon in 1949. They did not have any delivery capability. 

Meanwhile America was demonstrating its delivery capability regularly in the skies of the Soviet Union. When in 1957 the Russians did manage to finally put up a 184 pound satellite this was used as an excuse by American's weapons makers to call for more money. America's bullying of the Soviet Union did cause them to do things that ultimately ruined their socialist economy. The Soviets were forced to choose guns over butter again and again. Because America's ruling class was showing them very clearly that they intended to commit genocide on the Soviet people for having the audacity to have a socialist economy.