The US Air Force is conducting a routine test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The last Minuteman III test was in May. It flew over the Pacific toward a target in the Marshall ...

The United States test-fired an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump ordered nuclear weapons tests. The test of the Minuteman III ...

The tests demonstrated the Minuteman III's continued readiness, the Air Force said, as the next ICBM remains in the works.

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile during a weapons transfer operation near Sydney, Nebraska, February 5, 2025. Credit: Airman 1st Class Mattison Cole/U.S. Air Force Kathryn Bigelow’s ...

China appears to be building a lot of new missile silos out in the desert as it develops a nuclear force able to survive a US attack and return fire.

In less than two years, scientists have developed a technology that ‘fundamentally overturns’ conventional heavy-vehicle ...

Chinese researchers have created a modular, electric-drive vehicle capable of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a ...

HELENA, Mont. — At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The US is going to be test-firing an intercontinental ballistic missile across the Pacific Ocean this week, but not because of President Donald Trump's confusing new nuclear testing plans. The unarmed ...