(Bloomberg) -- The US Air Force is considering contingency plans that would extend the life of 1970s-era intercontinental ballistic missiles by 11 more years to 2050 if delays continue to plague the ...

Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said Tuesday the U.S. Air Force may be able to re-use some Minuteman III silos to house the future Northrop Grumman LGM-35A ...

The previous strategy included keeping the Boeing-made 400 Minuteman III ICBMs in silos until 2039 and gradually replace them ...

With the $141 billion Sentinel nuclear weapons program coming to rural areas of eastern Laramie County and western Nebraska, landowners expressed some of their concerns last week at a town hall hosted ...

But the Air Force and lead contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. must manage the elaborate process to take out the older missiles, refurbish the silos and then install Sentinels — a nuclear missile ...

Rodriguez added that the Air Force hopes to build new missile silos on the same sites as existing silos, but that may not be possible in all cases. Factors like geography are being analyzed to ...

Stidsen, who spent prolonged periods on duty beneath the Earth’s surface, will speak about his experiences in “Life in a Cold ...

Nuclear weapons can produce some of the most devastating destruction of any device ever created by humankind -- so what ...

China is pursuing nuclear modernization and expansion. What does its nuclear force look like, and how is it shaping its nuclear doctrine?

Buried underneath the Greenland ice sheet is the legacy of a spectacular American failure. Camp Century was a hidden US ...