Eastward over Siberia, and then out over the Pacific, soared a Soviet ballistic missile last week, headed for a target area 1,000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Next day an announcement from Moscow echoed round the world: Soviet ship-borne scientists stationed in the area had determined that the missile traveled 12,500 kilometers (7,762 miles) from its launching site and landed less than two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the precalculated target point.
Moscow billed the missile shot as a test of a peaceful space-exploration vehicle, but it was unmistakably an exercise in political...
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