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

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

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 400 Minuteman III's currently in service are the ground-based missile component of the U.S. military's nuclear triad that makes up the United State's nuclear deterrent.

Guided Tours at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. If you have more time, reserve a ticket to the Delta-One Launch Control Center led by a Park Ranger. Delta-One Launch Control Facility Tour.

At 11:01 p.m. Pacific Standard Time Thursday, the Minuteman missile, toting a payload of test instruments rather than a nuclear warhead, leaped into the darkness in an explosion of flame.

WASHINGTON — For 50 years the Minuteman missile has been armed and ready, day and night, for nuclear war on a moment’s notice. It has never been launched into combat from its underground silo ...

The Minuteman was also a faster missile and traveled at 15,000 mph, which meant it could have traveled over the North Pole and reached its target in 30 minutes.

The Minuteman III has been "the backbone of the U.S. land-based nuclear strategic force since 1962," according to Missile Threat, a product of the Center for Strategic and International Studies ...