While the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test on Aug. 4 of an unarmed LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBM with three test reentry vehicles, such tests with dummy, Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicles (MIRV) are uncommon. There appear to have been just three MIRV ICBM tests since 2017, including one on Feb. 8 that year, less than a month after President Trump assumed office; one on Apr. 25, 2018 just days before a planned summit between North Korea and…
