If the Americans tried to bargain with the Soviets after becoming aware of the missiles, Khrushchev could demand trading the missiles for West Berlin.

The Soviets ' avionics technology was not as advanced as that of the United States, so the Voskhod cabin could not have been left depressurized by an open hatch ; otherwise the air-cooled electronics would have overheated.

By the beginning of 1945, with the Soviets on the Oder and the Western Allies preparing to cross the Rhine, Goebbels could no longer disguise the fact that defeat was inevitable.

Because of the manner in which the head of the Soviet project, Lavrenti Beria, used foreign intelligence ( as a third-party check, rather than giving it directly to the scientists, as he did not trust the information by default ) it is unknown whether Fuchs's fission information had a substantial effect ( and considering that the pace of the Soviet program was set primarily by the amount of uranium they could procure, it is hard for scholars to accurately judge how much time this saved the Soviets ).

In any case, it seems clear that Fuchs could not have just given the Soviets the " secret " to the hydrogen bomb, since he did not himself actually know it.

If Hitler was successful, then Japan could strike when the Soviets were at their weakest.

After the adjournment of the Moscow conference following six weeks of failed discussions with the Soviets regarding a potential German reconstruction, the United States concluded that a solution could not wait any longer.

In addition, the most important condition was that every country choosing to take advantage of the plan would need to have its economic situation independently assessed-a level of scrutiny to which the Soviets could not agree.

Despite this, Najibullah was not the only choice the Soviets had ; a GRU report claimed he was unfit to be leader considering the fact that he was a Pashtun nationalist, a stance which could decrease the regimes popularity even more.

Britain opposed such proposals, because they feared the Soviets ' proposed language could justify a Soviet intervention in Finland and the Baltic states, or push those countries to seek closer relations with Germany.

In late July and early August 1939, Soviet and German officials agreed on most of the details for a planned economic agreement, and specifically addressed a potential political agreement, which the Soviets stated could only come after an economic agreement.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

In the case of Afghanistan, the Soviets could achieve a dual purpose: by strengthening relations with the leadership in Kabul, they could also threaten Britain, which was one of the Western states supporting counterrevolution in the Soviet Union.

During World War II trace italienne fortresses could still present a formidable challenge, for example in the last days of World War II, during the Battle in Berlin that saw some of the heaviest urban fighting of the war, the Soviets did not attempt to storm the Spandau Citadel ( built between 1559 and 1594 ) but chose to invest it and negotiate its surrender.

The furious Sinclair shut down production and ordered Kimbrough to return to the United States with the remaining film footage and the three Soviets to see what they could do with the film already shot, estimates ranging from 170, 000 lineal feet with Soldadera unfilmed, to an excess of 250, 000 lineal feet.

As the cold war started, the Soviets found themselves facing massive USAF and RAF bomber fleets they could not hope to counter in the air.

In a meeting with Teller and Lowell Wood, a critic noted that the Soviets could easily defeat the system by attacking the satellite, whose only defense was to destroy itself.

The world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, had been put into orbit by the Soviets in 1957, and this could be considered the beginning of the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

In order to justify the Western Allies ' alliance with the Soviet Union, the series misportrayed or simply omitted many facts, which could have cast doubts on the " good guy " status of the Soviets, such as the Nazi-Soviet alliance, Soviet invasion of Poland ; Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, Winter War and others.

** Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner could not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.

The Soviets believed that the Americans, with their limited nuclear arsenal, were unlikely to engage in any new world wars, while the Americans were not confident they could prevent a Soviet takeover of Europe, despite their atomic advantage.

Patton thought that the Red Army was weak, under-supplied, and vulnerable, and the United States should act on these weaknesses before the Soviets could consolidate their position.

The new president thus sought to minimize costs not by acting whenever and wherever the Soviets acted ( a strategy designed to avoid risk ) but rather whenever and wherever the U. S. could afford to act.

We seem hell-bent on national suicide .... We cannot as a nation afford to spend one penny less on national defense than that amount which is required to insure that you and I, and our children, can convince the Soviets they dare not pull the trigger when a Soviet gun is placed against our heads.

At first he believed that the Soviets could not afford to be merciful to their enemies, and he once criticized officers who let White Army prisoners go without shooting them.

Hughes describes how, as the Soviet Union developed and grew in power, both sides, the Soviets and the Americans, chose to ignore or deny the contribution of American ideas and expertise.

As the Soviet Union developed and grew in power, both sides, the Soviets and the Americans, chose to ignore or deny the contribution that American ideas and expertise had made: the Soviets because they wished to portray themselves as creators of their own destiny and not indebted to a rival, and the Americans because they did not wish to acknowledge their part in creating a powerful communist rival.

The Soviets ' poor performance in the Winter War against Finland encouraged Hitler to ignore the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and take the Red Army by surprise.

Allison noted there were many facts that the rational model had to ignore, such as why the Soviets failed to camouflage the nuclear sites during construction, but did so only after U-2 flights pinpointed their locations.

On the one hand, Reagan stated that SDI was " consistent with ... the ABM Treaty ", but on the other hand, he viewed it as a defensive system that would help reduce the possibility that mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) would become reality ; he even suggested that the Soviets would be given access to the SDI technology.

* 1981 – In a private meeting with U. S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

The Reagan administration insisted on the " Communist threat " posed by the Sandinistas — reacting particularly to the support provided to the Sandinistas by Cuban president Fidel Castro, by the Sandinistas ' close military relations with the Soviets and Cubans, but also furthering the Reagan administration's desire to protect U. S. interests in the region, which were threatened by the policies of the Sandinista government.

In the " evil empire " speech, which also dealt with domestic issues, Reagan made the case for deploying NATO nuclear armed missiles in Western Europe as a response to the Soviets installing new nuclear armed missiles in Eastern Europe.

Its terms were, nonetheless, honored by both sides until 1986 when the Reagan Administration withdrew from SALT II after accusing the Soviets of violating the pact.

Carter dropped his détente-oriented advisers and moved sharply to the right against the Soviets, but Reagan said it was too little, too late.

While the Soviets had enjoyed great achievements on the international stage before Reagan entered office in 1981, such as the unification of their socialist ally, Vietnam, in 1976, and a string of socialist revolutions in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa, the country's strengthening ties with Third World nations in the 1960s and 1970s only masked its weakness.

" John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration, stated in an interview that Walker's activities enabled the Soviets to know where our submarines were at all times.

" In 1980, Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, vowing to increase military spending and confront the Soviets everywhere.

Reagan also promoted new technologies such as missile defense systems in order to confront the Soviets and their allies.

In 1986 Reagan had proposed banning all ballistic missiles, but wanted to continue research on the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) that could potentially be shared with the Soviets.

The Soviets acceded to the " double-zero " proposal for eliminating INF weapons from Europe, as initially proposed by President Reagan in November 1981 ( INF denoting " Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces " as distinct from ICBMs, or intercontinental ballistic missiles ).