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This may have been done before, but if the Soviet Union had introduced reforms across the board in the 60's and 70's who's goal was increased efficiency in manufacturing, agriculture and bureaucracy. Would the Soviet Union been able to continue to exist into the new millennium. With the cold war continuing and as a result would the American SDI and any comparable Soviet project actually produce usable hardware. With the amount of funding the US was putting into it would they have been able to produce land or space based offensive and/or defensive hardware. Would WWIII have happened if the either power could actually intercept ICBM's or be able to to launch kinetic strikes from orbit.