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| | The Future of Space - Early Cooperation - The Eisenhower Institute, Washington, D.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Motivated by concerns regarding the ongoing use of outer space as a testing ground for the development of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), President Eisenhower proposed, in a January 13, 1958 letter to Nikolai Bulganin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, that both nations agree to use outer space for peaceful purposes only. |
 | | While it may have been too late to achieve effective control over the destructive power of nuclear energy, he said, it was still possible to secure space for the benefit of all mankind. |
 | | The USSR, however, was unwilling to de-link space from the larger strategic situation on earth and saw Eisenhower's proposal as an attempt to gain unilateral strategic advantage. |
| www.eisenhowerinstitute.org /programs/globalpartnerships/fos/newfrontier/early_coop.htm (286 words) |
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