Air Force Secretary nominee Troy Meink said he would review the report on the LGM-35A Sentinel that followed its severe cost ...

The previous strategy included keeping the Boeing-made 400 Minuteman III ICBMs in silos until 2039 and gradually replace them ...

The U.S. Defense Department accidentally shipped ballistic missile components to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Four nose-cone fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles were shipped instead of ...

The US Air Force is considering contingency plans that would extend the life of 1970s-era intercontinental ballistic missiles ...

Only $370K might be saved by terminating NOROCK operations. Real savings of $140 billion would be saved by canceling the entire Sentinel missile system replacement for the Minuteman missiles.

The bulk of the DOE’s nuclear work is done by around 60,000 contract workers. The people who build the missiles, dig the ...

The up to 400 Minuteman III missiles that make up the ground-based nuclear deterrence infrastructure is part of a trio of launch platforms that, "underwrites every U.S. military operation on the ...

Nature of Minuteman: a whole new weapons system of 3,000 to 4,000 solid-fuel “second-generation” missiles of variable ... range Polaris to the nuclear submarine (TIME, March 3).

F.E. WARREN AIR FORCE BASE – Airmen from the 90th Missile Wing supported the successful test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III ... and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.