I’m old enough to remember the Sputnik launches and the subsequent US brouhaha, not to say, hysteria, over the “missile gap” that it supposedly demonstrated. My recollection is that we were told that if Russia, or the Soviet Union as then known, could launch a satellite into orbit, they could hit anywhere in the US with a nuclear warhead.
So where are the US government alarm bells ringing? Are they waiting until after the election? Or are there no bells because the US government thinks the Iranians are the good guys?
We are living in interesting times /Captain Obvious