But just three days later, on a day they called Red Monday, the media and the politicians told us, and we believed, that Sputnik was proof that our enemy had beaten us in science and technology, and that they could now attack us with hydrogen bombs, using their Sputnik rocket as an IBM missile.
Ali samo tri dana poslije, na dan zvan "Crveni ponedjeljak," mediji i političari su nam rekli, a mi smo vjerovali, kako je Sputnik dokaz da nas je naš neprijatelj pobijedio u znanosti i tehnologiji, i da bi nas sada mogli napasti s hidrogenskim bombama, koristeći svoju Sputnik raketu kao IBM projektil.