With a new Netflix film dealing with the threat of nuclear war, take a look at the history of missile silos in north central ...

Russia got as far as testing the terminal hard-kill active protection-like system for protecting its ICBMs from incoming ...

The US Air Force's new ICBM Sentinel faces major delays and cost overruns. The service may have to rely on its 50-year-old Minuteman III's for much longer than anticipated. A host of logistical and ...

Would a wall of supersonic metal be able to protect a nuclear missile silo from destruction? In the late Cold War, Soviet ...

The continued extension of the Minuteman III system calls for a rethinking of the venerable US strategic nuclear triad.

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

Opponents of the next-generation ICBM often reduce its mission to that of a warhead “sponge”: That is, should an adversary attempt to disarm the US nuclear force, its primary purpose is to soak up the ...

On April 26 Airmen from F.E. Warren, Offutt and Vandenberg air force bases conducted an operational test launch of an unarmed minuteman three missile. Today™s test launch used an intercontinental ...

Scrapping ICBM modernization plans would do a great deal to better reflect America’s current strategic end goals. The Department of Defense recently released a $961.6 billion proposed budget for FY ...