Online maps to accompany the revised edition of the book Nuclear Heartland: A guide to the 450 land-based missile silos of the United States Each of the red markers corresponds to a Minuteman III ...

The Senate wants the U.S. Air Force to consider simultaneous construction of silos for the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel ...

A look down into a missile silo where a deactivated Minuteman nuclear missile sits at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, near Wall, South Dakota.

The Sentinel ICBM program is already alarmingly over budget, and trying to reuse 55-year-old Minuteman III silos would put it even further behind.

Minuteman III missiles are deployed in silos across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming. They are assigned to three operational units known as missile wings.

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