In the continuing saga of the anti-missile defense boondoggle, look at Slate‘s coverage of what’s happening “In Other Magazines”:

A superb article describes how the Pentagon is fixing an important

missile-defense test scheduled for July 7. In the

‘Potemkin’ test, the missile will travel at an

artificially low speed, will have only one lame

decoy, and will travel on a preset path that the

defense team already knows. The test’s success will

almost certainly ensure that the United States will

build and deploy a missile defense.

Is the Pentagon really calling this test “Potemkin”, or is the commentator in the quote above just evoking the phrase “Potemkin villages”?