U.S. shows Japanese officials ICBM launch procedures

Disclosure of Wyoming visit seen as signal to China and Russia

20240617 ICBM test launch

A Minuteman III ICBM is test-launched at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. (U.S. Air Force)

KEN MORIYASU, Nikkei Asia diplomatic correspondent

WASHINGTON -- Japanese officials have toured a U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile base in the state of Wyoming, learning about the specific procedures leading up to a nuclear missile launch.

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