2nd Gen Ballistic Missiles
PEACEKEEPER Missile X was renamed the Peacekeeper by President Reagan on 22 November 1982. It was a four-stage ICBM capable of precisely delivering 10 reentry vehicles to different targets more than 6,000 miles away. It successfully carried out its first flight test on 17 June 1983, when a Peacekeeper that had been cold-launched from a canister at Vandenberg AFB reached its target in the Kwajalein Missile Range. In April 1983, the President accepted the recommendation of the Scowcroft Commission that the Peacekeeper be temporarily based in existing Minuteman silos. The first ten missiles went on alert between 17 October and 22 December 1986, and the basing program achieved full operational capability when the fiftieth missile entered its silo on 20 December 1988. (USAF photo)
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