Missile Successfully Launched From Calif.
June 14, 2006, 9:15 AM EDT
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The Air Force successfully tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile early Wednesday, officials said.
The missile was launched at 1:22 a.m. and traveled 4,800 miles in about 30 minutes before its three warheads struck targets at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands, according to a news release from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
The purpose of the launch was to test the weapon's effectiveness.
The Air Force has about 500 Minuteman weapons in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota.
Which means the missile NK might launch will never reach our shores.
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