John f. Kennedy warned that republicans had allowed problems to develop regarding soviet technological and military superiority over the united states through a missile gap.
Soviet technology was most developed in the field of nuclear physics, where policymakers devoted enough research resources to compete with the West in an arms race.
Thus, the Soviet Union was the second country to develop an atomic bomb, in 1949, four years after the United States. The Soviet Union is known for its space race with the US which led to many important innovations in the world of space travel, such as multistage rockets, satellites, spacecraft, and space stations. The Soviet Union even succeeded in launching the world's first manned spacecraft.
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