US Launches Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Test on Election Night

The U.S. military test launched an unarmed yet nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile on the night of the election. At 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on Nov. 5, the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), equipped with multiple targetable re-entry vehicles, was fired from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to the U.S. military’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands, southeast of Japan. The U.S. Space Force said in a statement the launch was part of a routine test that occurs three times a year, and is “intended to demonstrate that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable, and effective to deter 21st century threats and reassure our allies.”...