The US Air Force will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in Southern California next week to test and flex ...

The U.S. Air Force's LGM-30G Minuteman III ICBMs have this capability, but operational examples are presently only loaded ...

The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

In a move meant to showcase and test the United States nuclear forces’ readiness, military officials plan to launch an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ...

If you assumed a broadly unlikely 100 percent hit rate, using just one Russian warhead for each of America’s known 450 ...

60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to ...

This bill will simply pause the development of the GBSD, and the associated W87-1 nuclear warhead, and life extend the Minuteman III until 2040 — something that is both technically feasible and ...

In comparison, the US's Minuteman III ICBM also reenters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds, but carries just one warhead, and was introduced in the 1970s. But the question of whose are better is ...