The Air Force's next-generation nuclear missile program has blown its budget and hit serious delays. Here's how things went ...
America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...
Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...
The MH-139 replaces variants of the UH-1 Huey helicopter, which have flown the ICBM security mission for over 50 years.
Heavier, faster, more lethal, cyber hardened and more reliable are just a few of the attributes woven into the US Air Force’s new Sentinel ICBM, a revamped weapons modernization effort slated to ...
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.
At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Watts knew other ...
Air Force planners want ideas on building the service’s next counter-air missile at a cost of $500,000 per unit, although the service already has cheaper munitions. As part of the service’s ...
USA TODAY asked experts what changes our leaders can make to nuclear missile modernization to make the country a safer place.
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