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

The Air Force's next-generation nuclear missile program has blown its budget and hit serious delays. Here's how things went sideways.

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

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 ...

Russia plans to test a new class of solid-fuel ICBMs in 2026, replacing the aging Topol-M systems as part of its nuclear ...

WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s vast fields of underground nuclear missile silos are rarely disturbed by more than the occasional wandering cow or floating spy balloon. But the service is now asking ...

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time ...