Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters conducted their first operational Minuteman III ICBM convoy security mission to and from a ...

The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg of America’s nuclear triad.

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force features a Minuteman II missile procedures trainer. The simulator was used to train crew members to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Similar ...

UPDATE : An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:35 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base. An operational test launch of an Air Force ...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) - The Latest on the test launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from the California coast. (all times local): 2:30 am The U.S. Air Force has ...

The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California's central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system. The missile blasted off at 11:34 p.m. PST ...

The Air Force's next-generation nuclear missile program has blown its budget and hit serious delays. Here's how things went sideways.

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon’s first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...