The U.S. currently deploys 400 armed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles ready for nuclear strikes.

A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team played an important behind-the-scenes role in supporting the Air Force’s ...

The 174-foot inverted tower of reinforced concrete with a two-story launch control center — a Cold War ... native and supervisor of a former Minuteman missile site in North Dakota.

Before his Wyoming stop, Hagel flew by helicopter to a Minuteman 3 missile launch control center in Nebraska. Besides Nebraska, the missiles are in underground silos in Wyoming, Colorado ...

bad lighting and chunky control switches, including a critical one that says "launch." Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile silos they control will be completely ...

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile streaks through the sky of Vandenberg ... missile is housed in a hardened underground silo, connected to a launch control center via ...

In a wide-ranging conversation, Gen. Bussiere, head of Air Force Global Strike Command, shared key updates on U.S. bomber ...

Nearing five hours until the launch window opens. The pad crew is proceeding through checklists to prepare the facilities and the Launch Control ... Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch ...

The looming expiration of the New START Treaty, the only remaining bilateral nuclear arms control agreement between the ...

"The Minuteman is a strategic weapon system using a ballistic missile of intercontinental range. Missiles are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to an underground ...

Neilson is owner of 570-4, the military code for his missile site ... Once inside, he had complete access to the launch control center — a three-story, dome-shaped structure, the top of which ...