The National Museum of the US Air Force features a Minuteman II missile procedures trainer where crews practiced launching nuclear missiles.

Russia has fired a new intermediate-range ballastic missile at Ukraine in what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called a “severe escalation” of Moscow’s invasion. Initally, Ukraine suggested an ...

Fears of a new arms race are growing as global tensions undermine hopes for progress on nonproliferation ...

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet the war has boosted the chances ...

“Struggling”—that’s the word Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall used in December to describe one of his service’s biggest and most important modernization projects. The program is Sentinel, the ...

It's been nearly 80 years since the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The massive loss of life and destruction caused by these atomic bombs led to ...

The world's first Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), the Soviet R-7 Semyorka, was successfully launched on August 21, 1957. The launch wasn't just a pivotal moment in the Cold War, it also ...

For decades, the United States has fielded a nuclear “triad” consisting of nuclear-capable bombers, ballistic missile submarines, and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). All three of these ...

In his first message to airmen, new Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said it plainly: “At our core, we fly and fix aircraft. It is the heart of who we are and what we do.” He’s right — ...

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, media coverage of the war hasn’t included even the slightest mention of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Yet the war has boosted the chances ...