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US test launches unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile

The Minuteman III's reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles over the Pacific Ocean to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

19 months ago

An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test on Sept. 2, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

Unarmed Minuteman 3 missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base for system test

An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was launched early Wednesday from California to a target in the Pacific Ocean in a test of the defense system, the Air Force said.

4 years ago

World War II airman to be buried June 5 in California

Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Vincent J. Rogers Jr. will be buried at Riverside National Cemetery in California June 5

By Kent Miller

5 years ago

Air Force test launches 2nd unarmed ICBM this month from Vandenberg

The U.S. Air Force has launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California in the second such test this month.

5 years ago

NY airman killed in WWII crash to be reburied in California

A New York airman whose remains were recently identified 75 years after he died in World War II will be buried near the Southern California airfield where he trained.

5 years ago

Remains of WWII airman who inspired museum’s exhibit ID’d

The remains of a New York airman whose trove of 200-plus wartime letters inspired a California museum’s popular World War II exhibit have been identified 75 years after he died in a crash off a Pacific island.

5 years ago

In Pacific, rising tensions evoke troubling nuclear legacy

More than 70 years after the first nuclear tests, Bikini Atoll remains contaminated today. It’s part of a troubling nuclear legacy that continues to affect islands and people across the Pacific long after the U.S., Britain and France stopped their testing programs there.

7 years ago

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