In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev warned the world that his nation was making “missiles like sausages.” Fears of a rising — and extremely hostile — communist superpower were thus reignited in Washington, and only three years after the Russians had conducted their first successful test of a hydrogen bomb. Khrushchev accompanied his warning with a threat to shoot down any NATO aircraft that entered Soviet airspace.

Nevertheless, that summer, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the U2 Dragon Lady spy planes’ very first mission over the Soviet Union.

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