From hypersonic glide vehicles to solid-fuel ICBMs, these weapons are compressing challenging global missile defense systems.

Global conflicts involving the U.S. are raising concerns about the nation's safety from a potential attack Florida could be a target due to its numerous military bases, major shipping ports and ...

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 ...

The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg of America’s nuclear triad. The United ...

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 ...

POBUZKE, Ukraine — In the middle of vast farm fields in southern Ukraine, you'll find what was once a secret Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile launch site. Today it's the Museum of Strategic ...

Hennadiy Vladimirovitch Fil, 65, former deputy commander of the Soviet Union's 309th Missile Regiment, stands near an old Soviet air defense missile at the Museum of the Strategic Missile Forces, ...

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 ...

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, ...