The Black Brant scare: "One version of events persists: Using the allies' facilities, the US were testing the Russian early time detection systems and response policies, since the status of the Russian defensive-offensive capacities was considered to be at least questionable after the collapse of the USSR."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

Yes, it is wonderful when we get the "right" viewpoint in time; yes, it would be nice to get it ahead of time, before we get the wrong one rather than chasing after the wrong hoping it is wrong!