Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent—even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic ...

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired from an underground silo on the country’s southern steppe Friday on a scheduled test to deliver a dummy warhead to a remote impact zone nearly ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

On a crisp November morning, the U.S. Air Force launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from California, sending it 4,200 miles across the Pacific. The test highlighted a ...

The US Air Force's new ICBM Sentinel faces major delays and cost overruns. The service may have to rely on its 50-year-old Minuteman III's for much longer than anticipated. A host of logistical and ...

Iran has successfully tested the Khorramshahr-5, its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which is reportedly capable of striking targets in the United States, raising concerns in ...

At the height of the Cold War, a new University of Wyoming grad from Buffalo became part of a team testing antiballistic missiles on the Marshall ...

THERE ARE no big red buttons in the underground bunkers that control America’s nuclear missiles. Instead, launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) involves decrypting and verifying ...

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

For years, the Western pundit class has insisted that North Korea’s missiles are far away and Pyongyang is not serious about their use—even as evidence mounts to the contrary.

The Hwasong-18 fundamentally upends the balance of power on the Korean Peninsula in North Korea’s favor. There’s talk that President Donald Trump is prepared to resume the historic diplomacy with ...

Navigational warnings indicate that the United States has scheduled its first test of a nuclear-capable, but unarmed, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) after President Donald Trump ordered the ...