The United States successfully tested a long-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile Tuesday after twice postponing the launch to avoid stoking tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan, the US Air Force announced.
The Air Force Global Strike Command launched the unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile over the Pacific from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California just after midnight local time.
The reentry vehicle traveled about 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific. "Such tests have occurred more than 300 times before, and this test is not the result of current world events."
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