Air Force fires unarmed ICBM into Pacific Ocean with aim toward deterrence(stripes.com)

15 pointsby LinuxBender3 lata temu11 comments

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

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-02-10/air-force-pacific-icbm-test-9102809.html

11 comments

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

They launch a few times a year [1]

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

remarkEon3 lata temu

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.

watersb3 lata temu

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...

klyrs3 lata temu

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

graderjs3 lata temu

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?

LinuxBender3 lata temu

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...

32gbsd3 lata temu

This is good news for the war machine

jimmygrapes3 lata temu

Election season must be coming up

bailoon3 lata temu

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.

jdsully3 lata temu

Probably because they literally broadcast threats while they do it.

bailoon3 lata temu

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?