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Easy, ask the Russians.
They watched and tracked every move the Yanks made.
It was a race between both of them.
They both wanted to claim superiority in the spacerace and the Yanks had had their butts kicked by the Russians in the race for so long. Kennedy used it as a platform to show superiority over the Russians during the cold war. Both wanted to be 'THE' superpower.
At least the race slowed the nuclear accumulation for a while .
The Russians pumped so much money into the race to the moon they couldnt afford to expand their nuclear arsenal.
They stooged the Yanks in this area by assembling the ICBMs in the factory,shipping them out in plain view of the US spy planes, then disassembling them and shipping them back to be rebuilt and so on.
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