A seemingly harmless everyday accident was responsible for the destruction of an Arkansas nuclear missile silo. Here's how ...

Those who keep up on current events know that talk of nuclear war continues today, and that’s why “Two Minutes to Midnight and the Architecture of Armageddon,” a new exhibit about the Doomsday Clock ...

America’s nuclear arsenal is active, massive, and, maybe surprisingly, highly concentrated in just a few places.

The Minuteman III missile features a three-stage booster design that propels it from its silo into space to release its nuclear warheads.

The Air Force conducts regular tests of its Minuteman III ICBMs, as it looks for ways to bring costs under control for the successor Sentinel missile.

Existing Minuteman III silos are clustered in missile fields across areas of Wyoming, North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, and Nebraska.

The Air Force hoped to reuse existing silos for Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the upcoming Sentinel program, but has concluded it will have to dig new silos. (A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) ...

A look down into a missile silo where a deactivated Minuteman nuclear missile sits at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, near Wall, South Dakota.

Kansas City musician Nate Hofer took his pedal steel guitar 30 feet down into an inter-continental ballistic missile silo to record a hopeful reminder that nuclear war is not inevitable.

With its amendments attached, LB 1120 would require land purchasers within range of the Panhandle’s 80 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos or nine “alert facilities” to ...