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Khrushchev in Life 1960/5/30
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Powers on trial
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May 11 - Khrushchev displayed U-2 remains in Moscow's "second U.S. Exhibition"
- U-2 wreckage still on display at the Central Army Museum in Moscow
May 14 - Ike trip to Paris Big Four summit on Air Force One jet
- with secret camera in nose, unknown to Ike
May 15 - Khrushchev threat against U-2 bases; U.S. put on DefCon 3 alert
May 16 - Khrushchev cancelled Ike's Moscow visit; refused any summit agreements
May 19 - Ike left Paris after Khru shook fist
May 22 - Midas 2 launched -1st infrared spy satellite
July 1 - RB-47 shot down
Aug. 10, - Discoverer 13 launched
- first successful test, after 12 failures, of the CORONA system approved by Eisenhower Feb. 7, 1958, to use rocket-launched satellites with cameras that returned film to earth in a cannister.
Aug. 18, 1960 - CORONA satellite launched - 1st photo spy satellite
- the satellite "orbited the Earth for a day, and returned its canister to earth, where it was snatched out the air by a specially equipped aircraft on August 19. The camera carried on that flight would be retroactively designated the KH-1 (KH for KEYHOLE) and was cable of producing images with resolution in the area of 25-40 feet - a far cry from what would be standard in only a few years. It did yield, however, more images of the Soviet Union in its single day of operation than did the entire U-2 program" (quote from U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999 by Jeffrey T. Richelson)
Aug. 19, 1960 - Powers made confession during trial
- "deeply repentant and profoundly sorry"
- jailed in Russia until exchanged for Rudolf Abel in Feb. 1962
Sep. 21- Khrushchev arrived in U.S. for 25 days
- to attend United Nations session
- Nehru, Nasser, Tito, Sukarno plus 14 new nations
- Khrushchev pounded table during Macmillan's speech
- Khrushchev embraced Castro
Nov. 4, 1960 - Kennedy defeated Nixon 34,227,096 to 34,108,546
revised 4/5/02 by Schoenherr | Kitchen Debate | Cold War Policies
