Word: impression
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Moscow billed the missile shot as a test of a peaceful space-exploration vehicle, but it was unmistakably an exercise in political muscle flexing, designed to impress the U.S., its allies, and the world's sideline countries with the spectacle of Soviet missile might. Viewed with cool reason, the Pacific shot represented no missile breakthrough. The U.S. Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, already operational in small numbers, has flown more than 6,000 miles, has a potential range of 8,000 miles or more. And Atlas' accuracy, proved in several tests, is as close...