[RingerSIX]

Ellsworth said such tests were carried out in the Atlantic to demonstrate America's power to the Soviets, when there was a Soviet Union, but he doesn't believe an ICBM has previously been tested by the U.S. over the Pacific.

Government schools... either for the reporter or Ellsworth.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

We used to flick missiles over to Kwajalein all of the time and they we supposed to land in the middle of the atoll. The site is now called the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site.

http://www.smdc.army.mil/RTS.html

“never fired over the Pacific???????”