
The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the early morning hours on Wednesday, testing a new fuze that will set off the nuclear warhead tipping that missile, and its planned successor. The Air Force development test launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California happened one year from the day the U.S.-Russian New START nuclear arms control accord will expire, unless the presidents of those countries agree to an extension. New START limits the two…