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Monday, August 18th, 2008

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U.S. Air Force Launches Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile The U.S. Air Force launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with three unarmed multiple independent reentry vehicles on a trajectory of 4,220 nautical miles to hit targets in the Pacific Ocean. That test happened to come just as a nation with hundreds of nuclear-tipped ICBMs has invaded a neighboring nation. Russian forces have invaded the former Soviet Union state of Georgia, prompting President Bush to send U.S. forces there…

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