The Space Race Was A Cover-Up For A Secret Arms Race
While we’d love to simply say this was one of the strangest theories from the space race and be done with it, we cannot. Why? Because, well, frankly…this isn’t exactly correct nor is it completely wrong. The Soviet Union and the United States were most certainly in an arms race during this time period. In fact, once Sputnik went into space, the U.S. widely assumed the Soviets potentially had nuclear weapons. On top of that, we thought they might be dropping bombs on us. However, we knew of the arms race at the time. Meaning, there was nothing secret about it. This is one of those rumors and conspiracies that starts up decades after the fact. People completely ignore the knowledge many had at the time.