Declassified Soviet-era files describe a terrifying night in 1982 when UFOs hovered over a missile base, activated nuclear ...

For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon’s first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...

The United States test-fired an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump ordered nuclear weapons tests. The test of the Minuteman III ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...

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 ...