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May 20, 2024 · After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.
May 7, 2024 · FAS researchers, in partnership with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, release this seminal account each year in the “Nuclear Notebook” Washington, D.C. – May 7, 2024 – Nuclear experts at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) today released “Nuclear Notebook: United States Nuclear Weapons 2024,” an annual overview of the current status and trends of the U.S. nuclear weapons ...
May 7, 2024 · In October 2022, US Central Command released photos indicating that the USS West Virginia (SSBN-736) was operating at an undisclosed location in international waters in the Arabian Sea—a highly rare public disclosure of a ballistic missile submarine’s operating area and the first Ohio-class SSBN deployment in the Indian Ocean (US Central ...
5 days ago · The U.S. needs all three legs of its nuclear triad, including land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, air-launched cruise missiles and its sea-based weapons to guarantee a second-strike
May 7, 2024 · Display of Polaris missiles at the USS Bowfin Museum in Pearl Harbor features the Polaris A1 missile in the foreground on the left and the Polaris A3 missile on the right. ( Library of Congress)
4 days ago · May 24, 2024 12:25 PM. Virginia-class submarine with the Virginia Payload Module. The questions on how to modify Virginia-class attack submarines to install nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles and how much the changeover would cost are not easily answered, the Navy’s director of strategic systems programs told a key Senate panel this week.
May 15, 2024 · (Ron Buskirk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The U.S. is building new nuclear weapons, including a massive missile called the Sentinel. They're up to 20 times more powerful...
