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Sep 5, 2024 · The U.S. can deliver nuclear weapons from silos buried deep in the American heartland, submarines plying vast oceans, or bombers conducting global patrols.
Aug 27, 2024 · The Pentagon has raised the projected cost of refurbishing hundreds of nuclear missile silos while the communities that house the missiles have been plunged into uncertainty.
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Aug 27, 2024 · The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center is reorganizing its execution directorates to better serve the nuclear enterprise. The Sentinel Systems Directorate and the Minuteman III Systems Directorate merged Aug. 27 to become the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Systems Directorate.
Sep 8, 2024 · While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still testing done to determine the viability of the United States' aging nuclear arsenal. Additionally, the site is the location of the Area 5 Radioactive Waste Management Complex, which sorts and stores low-level radioactive waste that is not transuranic ...
Sep 5, 2024 · New Sentinel ICBMs are planned to replace the half-century-old Minuteman III rockets in 450 silos scattered across 40,000 square miles of Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, North Dakota and Colorado.
3 days ago · A month after a decommissioned Titan II missile silo northwest of Tucson sold for more than the asking price, two more of the Cold War castoffs have hit the local real estate market.
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Sep 13, 2024 · 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.
