An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during a developmental test at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on February 5, 2019Photo: U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Clayton Wear/Released
These latest missile tests may not be about recent events, but the military can’t blame us for taking notice of the timing. The U.S. announced last week that it was pulling out of the landmark INF Treaty signed between the U.S. and Soviet Union in 1987. Russia promptly said that it was doing the same, paving the way for a new arms race. So, yeah, this might be business as usual, but any missile test from here on out is going to be interpreted as a potential escalation of military posturing, whether that’s the intention or not.
Thank you, world leaders. Those of us who missed the scariest parts of the first Cold War felt like we were missing out. Now we can all duck and cover.
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