An amendment added to the House version of a must-pass national defense bill calls for more research and scrutiny into cancer ...

The Air Force started studying cancer rates in the nuclear missile community in 2023 due to pressure from ailing missile ...

The Intercontinental Ballistic Missile was designed to be in use for 10 years. It is a milestone that likely would have seemed unimaginable to the engineers that designed the Air Force's Minuteman ...

The U.S. Sentinel ICBM program intended to replace aging Minuteman III missiles has ballooned from an initial estimate of around $78 billion to over $140 billion, triggering a critical Nunn–McCurdy br ...

Beyond the cost and mix of nuclear weapons, a broader question looms. With the expiry of New START, America and Russia will ...

Northrop Grumman has resumed work on a major part of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program and has ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, during an Air Force Global Strike Command operational test, on August 11.

The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile overnight as part of a test to confirm the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent forces, Air ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 2:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Aug. 2, 2017.

An unarmed Minuteman III ICBM carrying three re-entry vehicles traveled 4,200 miles during the test demonstration flight. Despite the missile being decades old, it demonstrated that the United ...

The Convair B-58 Hustler, America’s first Mach 2 supersonic bomber, was the center of a radical Cold War plan to create a “flying missile silo.” -U.S. nuclear strategists envisioned modifying the B-58 ...

The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test in California early Wednesday in a show of nuclear readiness. The operational test launched at 1:13 a.m ...