The Minuteman III is a three-stage, solid-fuel rocket, meaning it can be launched with minimal preparation—an essential ...

Californians will be able to look to the sky to see an unarmed missile as the Air Force is set to launch the Minuteman III ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unarmed Minuteman III will be fired from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, sometime between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 5 a.m. Wednesday, Air Force Global ...

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 ...

Soldiers mount a refurbished nuclear warhead on to the top of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. [AP Photo/Eric Draper] On Monday, President Donald Trump ordered the construction ...

As the US struggles with delays and cost overruns in its Sentinel missile program, China and Russia are pressing forward with cutting-edge missile de ...

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 ...