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U.S. Air Force photo. Gen Bussiere briefing Airmen and Visitors.
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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. — In tight confines 60 feet underground, Air Force missileers rotate 24-hour shifts at ICBM missile launch control centers in pairs, waiting for a message they hope never arrives: An order from the president of the United States directing a nuclear strike.
For a small group of journalists touring the missile range at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California last week, Air Force personnel demonstrated the sequence of actions involved in launching a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile.
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ICBM test launches are scheduled three times per year, on dates selected five years in advance, which base officials said debunks any notion that the tests are ever a response to recent world events. As part of the process, an active missile from the arsenal is selected at random, disarmed of nuclear material, and transported to Vandenberg. The missile launched on Feb. 19 had been deployed at F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming
