A single Minuteman III missile was fired at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. It was a trial run to make sure all the buttons still work and there isn’t too much dust in the computers. From the video and the cheer of a woman in attendance, it looks like we are OK. The Pentagon really went all out for this test, using the 60s Airborne Launch Control System to pull the trigger. It’s a way of remotely launching nukes in case the Red Menace hits us before we can hit them.”]
Source: https://gizmodo.com/us-air-force-tests-doomsday-nuclear-launch-attack-5960834