For now, the current ICBMs, called Minuteman IIIs, sit buried inside hardened silos at several-mile intervals across the ...

Hundreds of leaders and industry stakeholders from around the world attend the Nuclear Deterrence Summit each year to discuss issues facing the defense sector and the evolution of nuclear deterrence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear ...

President Donald Trump suggested that the U.S. will restart its testing of nuclear weapons on Thursday before he meets with China's Xi Jinping. "I have instructed the Department of War to start ...

Several nations boast nuclear arsenals, although nearly 90% of all nukes belong to a minority. Here's who holds the lion's share of nuclear weapons.

U.S. nuclear strategy revolves around the idea of the “triad.” Each of the military’s methods for delivering a nuclear strike represents a leg – the air leg (bomber planes), the sea leg (missile ...