From the deserts of New Mexico to missile silos in Montana, eyewitnesses and—more recently—declassified government documents ...

Nuclear-armed states maintain “target dossiers” that pre-designate high-value strategic and tactical objectives to be struck ...

Because of this, silos are heavily defensible with massive overhead doors hardened against taking a direct nuclear strike (theoretically). The U.S. has invested millions into these locations since ...

Shannon Seidler, a mechanic near Garrison, North Dakota, has lived on family land housing a nuclear missile silo for his entire life. The state is armed with 150 nuclear missile silos that form a ...

And complicated. The Air Force has three concentrations of land-based nuclear missiles. The swarm of silos near Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska will be the first to undergo ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force's vast fields of underground nuclear missile silos are rarely disturbed by more than the occasional wandering cow or floating spy balloon. But the service is now ...

In the end, the Titan I was a short-lived, transitional missile, but its brief existence explains why Colorado still has abandoned nuclear silos scattered across its landscape, although the USAF ...

Whereas the nuclear launch sites are almost undetectable — just small, rectangular plots of land marked only by antennae, a chain-link fence and a flat 110,000-ton concrete silo blast door ...

North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs are shrouded in secrecy, making it hard to assess their true capabilities. But analysts say Mr. Kim was using stalled talks with Washington to test and ...