US destroys missile over Pacific in test

Officials said the U.S. military said on Wednesday that destroyed one of its nuclear missiles capable of intercontinental himself over the Pacific Ocean after it was disrupted during the test, and Washington.
Minuteman III missiles - which was not armed to the test - was aborted after five minutes of taking off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as a precaution after the "flight anomaly," said a military statement.
The military had hoped to launch some 4,200 km (6750 miles) to the Kwajalein Atoll in the six-hour flight that will provide data to the U.S. intercontinental ballistic.
"Exceeded the standards fixed controllers sent commands destruction," said Col. Matthew Carroll, head of the security wing of the space 30.
The army said it would provide more details later on this problem.
"The Air Force ... are being investigated in this abnormal situation, especially as we see if they can determine the cause of it," said Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Lapan.
"This is a very complex tasks that carry them out," he said.
Rocket - named after the "compare" in the American Revolutionary War, which will be prepared to quickly take up the fight against British colonialism - is the mainstay of the nuclear weapons program, the Cold War.
United States, while committing to reduce nuclear weapons in the START Treaty with Russia, and maintains more than 450 rockets comparing the third in its active participation in the rules in the countries of the plains of North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming.