Election Day is an odd today for nuclear tests, don’t you think? The Air Force doesn’t think so.
The US Air Force Global Strike Command said in a statement that it conducted “routine” practice with a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
“The ICBM’s reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site located within Republic of the Marshall Islands at the Kwajalein Atoll.”
The statement says that this is “part of routine and periodic activities intended to demonstrate that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective to deter 21st century threats and reassure our allies. Such tests have occurred over 300 times before, and this test is not the result of current world events.”
