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

There are 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch facilities hiding in plain sight amidst farms ...

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.

Minuteman III missiles are deployed in silos across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming. They are assigned to three operational units known as missile wings.

The Air Force conducted a midnight test Wednesday of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. Airmen from Air Force Global Strike Command launched the Minuteman III at 12:01 ...

The US Air Force recently conducted a simulated launch of the Minuteman III ICBM. The exercise – known as GIANT PACE 21-1 – includes sliding the silo door open at silo G8 (48.1231, -102.0747).

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.