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Air Force fires unarmed ICBM into Pacific Ocean with aim toward deterrence

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Vandenberg routinely launches ICBMs, this isn't anything new.

They launch a few times a year [1]

[1]: https://www.spacearchive.info/vafblog.htm

Yeah this kind of thing is very routine. Whether it should be is a separate question, and the timing is probably why this is making the news.

A great article on the Minuteman ICBM testing program can be found in the Spring 2020 issue of "National Security Science", a glossy popular-science publication (not academic journal) of Los Alamos National Labs.

Page 50, "A Moment of Glory"

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/national-security-sci...

That'll show those uppity whales to stop the incessant assaults on our beaches

How do you notify other countries when you are going to fire an ICBM that it's just a test?

Also, could this possible just be cover for taking out some secret UAP undersea base that spawns all those USOs?

There are agreements in place discussed here [1] and documented here [2] but there are probably better documents that cover all the nuclear powers.

[1] - https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/34628/do-countr...

[2] - https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/treaties/launch-noti...

This is good news for the war machine

Election season must be coming up

Funny how when we do it, it's "aimed toward deterrence". When other nations do it, it's portrayed as a threat to the entire world.

"North korea fires unarmed ICBM into Pacific Ocean with aim toward deterrence."

That's more valid than stripes' title.

Probably because they literally broadcast threats while they do it.

As opposed to the country that flew across the pacific and literally attacked and invaded them and killed millions of their people? And still occupy half their country to this day? Can you blame them?

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