Underground MX Test Friday
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From Reuters
WASHINGTON — The United States said today it will conduct the first test-firing from an underground silo of an MX nuclear missile at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday.
Eight previous test-firings of the intercontinental missile, all from canisters mounted above ground on a concrete pad at Vandenberg, have been successful. The missiles are to be deployed in modified Minuteman silos in the western United States. The first 10 are scheduled for basing in December, 1986, at Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyo.
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