 Although this argument was successful, the number of manned bombers has been repeatedly cut and the deterrent role increasingly passed to missiles.The LGM-30A Minuteman-I was first test-fired on 1 February 1961 at Cape Canaveral, and entered into the Strategic Air Command's arsenal in 1962.After the first batch of Minuteman I's were fully developed and ready for stationing, the United States Air Force (USAF) had originally decided to put the missiles at Vandenberg AFB in California, but before the missiles were set to officially be moved there it was discovered that this first set of Minuteman missiles had defective boosters which limited their range from their initial to .