New Delhi, March 28 -- With its successful test of an anti-satellite missile, India, once a critic of America's Strategic Defense Initiative, has joined a club of four countries that can accurately hit moving targets in space. Under Mission Shakti, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, India has shot down a defunct low-earth orbit micro satellite of its own. Recall that in 2007, China had downed its FengYun orbiter in a strike whose accuracy was touted as that of "a bullet shot by a bullet". Exaggeration apart, as that technology could potentially knock out nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, it was interpreted as Beijing's shield against long-range nukes....