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 ...

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.

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 because of pressure from ailing missile ...

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.

The Convair B-58 Hustler, America’s first Mach 2 supersonic bomber, was the center of a radical Cold War plan to create a ...

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 ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during a developmental test, Feb. 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

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 ...

America’s ICBM infrastructure is vast, with 400 missiles deployed in 450 silos across the great plains. A spider’s web of ...

This was followed by the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) conducting a "routine and periodic" test launch of a Minuteman III Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), equipped with a Mark ...

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 ...