{"id":1315793,"date":"2025-11-04T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/us-to-resume-strategic-nuclear-missile-tests\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:02:53","slug":"us-to-resume-strategic-nuclear-missile-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/us-to-resume-strategic-nuclear-missile-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"US to resume strategic nuclear missile tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United States is preparing for the first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a nuclear warhead, but without actual weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The decision to resume launches was made by President Donald Trump, Newsweek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/map-first-united-states-nuclear-missile-test-trump-comments-10979891\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> According to the publication, the tests will be part of a regular practice to check the safety and reliability of the American nuclear arsenal. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified that no real explosions are planned, but all components that ensure the operability of the warhead will be checked.<\/p>\n<p> Experts emphasize that the US Air Force conducts such tests several times a year to ensure the readiness of its fleet of intercontinental missiles for strategic deterrence.<\/p>\n<p> Marco Langbroek, a lecturer at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University, predicts that the Minuteman III missile will be launched between Wednesday and Thursday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The missile will travel over the Pacific Ocean and reach the Ronald Reagan missile defense range on Kwajalein Atoll to test missile defense systems.<\/p>\n<p> If the trajectory is the same as during the previous launch in May, the rocket will fly about 4,200 miles.<\/p>\n<p> This will be the second time since September that the US has tested its nuclear forces: a submarine launched four unarmed Trident II D5 ballistic missiles into the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p> According to the Nuclear Information Project of the Federation of American Scientists, the US Air Force has about 400 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles located in the states of Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming, with a range of more than 6,000 miles.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, US President Donald Trump said that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-nas-dostatno-iadernoi-zbroi-shchob-pidirvaty-svit-150-raziv-tramp\/\">the United States has enough nuclear weapons to \u201cblow up the world 150 times over.\u201d<\/a> His words sparked a public debate about nuclear weapons testing and comparisons of other states\u2019 arsenals.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is preparing for the first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a nuclear warhead, but without actual weapons. The decision to resume launches was made by President Donald Trump, Newsweek reports . According to the publication, the tests will be part of a regular practice to check the safety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1310871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1315793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1310871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}