https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0214/trump-nuclear-weapons-air-force
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Updated Feb. 14, 2025, 4:43 p.m. ET|CHEYENNE, WYO.
In a secured room at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, a Monitor journalist and photographer are getting ready to launch a nuclear missile.
It takes two to launch. The training console before them has four screens, its updates appearing in a kludgy old font. There are too many keys.
Three Air Force officials are calmly walking them through the steps to fire off intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). It’s a thicket of acronyms and codes.
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U.S. Air Force missileers have their hands on the triggers of nuclear-armed missiles. Our reporter and photographer participate in a training drill, and report their experience.
