Just south of Tucson, the Titan Missile Museum offers a rare glimpse into Cold War history — and the chilling reality of ...

LONDONDERRY — What was it like to serve on a launch crew at a Titan II missile site during the height of the Cold War? As a young U.S. Air Force officer in the 1960s, Carl Stidsen commanded a ...

multi-stage ballistic missile that can be launched from underground silos or from mobile missile launch platforms, and Russia has both. In fact, the Russian nuclear arsenal is massive and ...

In 1963, the United States armed 54 missile silos with launchable nuclear bombs, which could travel some 6,000 miles each and kill millions of people, flash-blind hundreds of thousands and leave a ...

Experts are divided whether a new missile defense system for the U.S., inspired by Israel's Iron Dome, would be worth the ...

The exercise involved the simultaneous launch of 16 ballistic missiles toward ... Snyder estimates that Chinese missile silos, likely hardened to no more than 1,500 psi, are vulnerable to airblast ...

However, when satellites failed to detect any follow-up missile launches ... its posture of ‘launch-on-warning’ – meaning its nuclear weapons would be out of their silos and in the air ...

An explosion destroyed a building at Northrop Grumman’s Promontory missile and rocket plant in Utah’s West Desert on Wednesday morning, according to a press release from the Box Elder County Sheriff’s ...

A key part of the new missile defense system ... try to hit these ICBMs right as they're launching from their silo, but "the launch phase of those missiles only lasts three to five minutes ...