A Missile Past Its Prime: Why the Minuteman III’s Endless Life Extension Forces a Rethink of America’s Nuclear Triad

A Missile Past Its Prime: Why the Minuteman III’s Endless Life Extension Forces a Rethink of America’s Nuclear Triad

When the first Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) went on alert in 1970, the Beatles had just broken up, and Richard Nixon was still in his first term as president. More than half a century later, the same missile… The post A Missile Past Its Prime: Why the Minuteman III’s Endless Life Extension Forces a Rethink of America’s Nuclear Triad appeared first on The Asia Live.