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Comment by gucci-on-fleek

> Quick question though - are their fake launches to see if crew would actually send the nukes? I’m picturing like a firing squad where nobody knows who has the real bullet

That's exactly what we were told when I toured a Titan II launch facility [0], but I have no idea if that still applies to the modern Minuteman III facilities that this article is about.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_Missile_Museum

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