Reflections on Sputnik
Sputnik proves, we are being told in an excited and sometimes hysterical rhetoric, that the Communists already have, as we do not yet have, the strategically decisive long-range missiles. But what does “having” missiles mean? Does it mean that a certain number of test or “prototype” missiles have been put together, in one way or another, and that some of these have been fired a long distance? And if so, with what ease in launching, with what degree of accuracy, with or without active warheads?
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