Test: AP US History

"It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace...But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country."

J. Robert Oppenheimer, commencement address, 1946

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Which of the following events reflected the change in relations between countries that Oppenheimer predicted in the wake of the atomic bomb?

the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961

the launch of Sputnik in 1957

the resolution of the Suez Canal Crisis in 1957

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