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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

MINOT, N.D. — In the early 1960s, Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missiles began going into underground silos in several areas of the United States, including a missile field around Minot ...

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.

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.