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.

COOPERSTOWN, N.D. - The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile State Historic Site here is offering the second of three in-depth tours of the Oscar-Zero Missile Alert Facility from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Jan.

Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters conducted their first operational Minuteman III ICBM convoy security mission to and from a ...

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 ...

UPDATE : An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:35 a.m. from Vandenberg Space Force Base. An operational test launch of an Air Force ...

The U.S. Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile has been launched from California's central coast in the latest test of the intercontinental system. The missile blasted off at 11:34 p.m. PST ...

F.E. Warren Air Force Base Wyoming - 1st Lieutenant Matthew Bejcek (front) and Captain Mark Olenick keep watch over Launch Control Center 24 hours 3 days at a time and cycle out with other members of ...

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

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