In 1980, a routine maintenance task inside a U.S. nuclear missile silo went catastrophically wrong. A dropped socket wrench punctured a Titan II missile, causing highly volatile fuel to leak into the ...

Like no other missile system in US history, the Sprint platform embodied the spirit of a dragster. Certainly, it was fast ...

Every month, Santa Rita Fire District crews get together to train with their regional partners to prepare for various ...

How safe is the U.S. if an attack were to occur on our soil? Could Florida be a potential target? Here are some speculation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By July 2024, the public knew the program had blown its budget. But the announcement was nonetheless staggering. The projected ...

A Newsweek map shows where China has constructed three silo fields, each capable of housing about 100 missiles, as part of its counterstrike strategy in the event of a nuclear war. China's Foreign ...

The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. (That’s the equivalent of Americans ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

China has reportedly loaded more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles into three newly constructed silo fields near its border with Mongolia and shows little interest in arms control talks, ...