Benefits And Downfalls To The Cold War

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Benefits and downfalls to the Cold War As hard as it is to believe that anything good could come out of something so terrifying and horrific as the cold war we did gain several important things arguably in our culture but unarguably in the scientific community.
The beginnings of the exploration into our small area of space was fueled by the cold war. We (soviets did first) built a satellite just to show we could. It literally had no function except to show how well our rockets worked. After this achievement we set our eyes on the moon, this monumental achievement was one of the most amazing things that came out of the cold war. Even when compared to the vastness of the universe.
The downfalls of the cold war are quite obvious, we spent or