That would make sense. A fragment was found, and dubbed a "warhead" by a heavy breather.
Another possibility, is that the fragment is from an errant test missile that was self-destructed, and the satellite story is the sanitized explanation.
Or from what the Clintonites told us was a satellite launch attempt. There seemed to be some question about that at the time, even just reading between the lines in the DoD/Bacon daily brief linked above.