Unprotected: Troops Spent Decades Elbow-Deep in Dangerous Chemicals to Keep Nuclear Missiles Working The expectation that maintainers would simply accept being doused in known, deadly chemicals and continue to carry out their...
Air Force, Congressional Focus Grows in Ongoing Missileer Cancer Study Investigations into potential toxic exposures of those who work with America's nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles...
What It's Like to Live and Work with the World's Deadliest Weapon: the Minuteman III ICBM Some parts of North Dakota, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska are home to some 400 nuclear-tipped ICBMs and the 10,000...
China Test-Fires an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile into the Pacific Ocean China test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, stirring security concerns in the...
What's Behind China's Launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile China rarely tests ICBMs out in international waters, with some experts tracing the last such deployment back to May 1980...
US Believes Iran Has Transferred Short-Range Ballistic Missiles to Russia, AP Sources Say Iran, as it has with previous U.S. intelligence findings, denied providing Russia with weapons for its war in Ukraine.
Air Force Missileers Get New Workplace Inspections, Health Tracking Amid Ongoing Cancer Cluster Study Service officials announced that, by December, missileers will have their information submitted to the Defense Occupational...
Bill to Compensate Radiation Fallout Victims of Atom Bomb Tests Allowed to Expire Citing concerns that the bill would be too costly, House Speaker Mike Johnson adjourned the House without allowing a vote on...
Air Force Missile Base Personnel Have Elevated Breast, Prostate Cancer Rates, Initial Study Results Indicate The early results, shared by the service and reported for the first time here, indicate elevated rates of breast and prostate...
The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
Navy Orders Forcewide Housing Inspections After Secretary 'Appalled' by Guam Barracks Conditions Navy Secretary Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was "appalled" after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks...
Air Force Wants Private Company to Take Over its On-Base Hotels The Department of the Air Force, which includes the Space Force, will start accepting requests for proposals this summer...
2 Elite Marine Corps Pilots Reveal What It's Like to Fly a F-35B Fighter Jet In his role as a pilot with the Marine Corps air demonstration team, Maj. Craig Norris flew the F-35B Lightning II at...
Ken Burns Reveals Why He Chose to Tell the Story of 'The American Revolution' Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because...
Veterans’ Protests Planned for D-Day Latest in Nearly 250 Years of Fighting for Their Benefits Veterans were not always politically popular, nor were they treated well by the federal government.