U.S. Conducts Successful ICBM Flight Test

The United States successfully test-fired a Minuteman 3 ICBM yesterday morning, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, July 22).

The unarmed missile flew 4,000 miles from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, hitting its target at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands (Associated Press/San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 25).

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