Security Forces tasked with defending Minuteman III ICBMs currently train for everything from retaking captured silos to repelling ground assaults.

Officially released photos show special weapons system mechanics conducting maintenance on nuclear-capable Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) boosters. This comes after the U.S.

The Air Force hoped to reuse existing silos for Minuteman III nuclear missiles for the upcoming Sentinel program, but has concluded it will have to dig new silos. (A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) The ...

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

The Air Force is asking Congress to pass legislation to restrict further construction of towering wind turbines that have edged in closer to its nuclear missile sites. The ground-based silos share ...

This month, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released findings on the Air Force’s troubled transition from the aging, silo-based Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to its ...

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 ...

An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 1 a.m. Wednesday, from Vandenberg Space Force Base. ICBM test launches demonstrate the readiness, ...

The National Museum of the US Air Force features a Minuteman II missile procedures trainer. The simulator was used to train crew members to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). Similar ...