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Dec 10, 2023 · Those underground capsules are about to be demolished and the missile silos they control will be completely overhauled. A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It’s the largest cultural shift in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission in 60 years.
Dec 1, 2023 · Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You’ve Never Heard Of. A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival. By Abe Streep. For decades a Titan...
Oct 20, 2020 · Map showing the areas of the six Minuteman Missile wings on the central and northern Great Plains. The areas in black denote deactivated missile wings, the areas in red denote the active missile wings. Minuteman Missile Fields in the United States during the Cold War and after.
Sep 13, 2022 · The assessment found Beijing planned a threefold increase in warheads to 1,000 by 2030, while simultaneously constructing hundreds of new silos capable of launching long-range ballistic...
Dec 11, 2023 · Making the silo-launched missile more modern, with complex software and 21st-century connectivity across a vast network, may also mean it's more vulnerable. The Sentinel will need to be well...
Mar 30, 2023 · March 30, 2023 1:20 pm (EST) Russia’s threat to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus has raised the specter of a new nuclear standoff with the United States and its allies in Europe. It...
Jul 2, 2021 · Researchers in the United States have identified the construction of 119 new intercontinental ballistic missile silos in a desert in northwestern China, indicating that the country is carrying...
