The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have been prepared to launch within minutes since the Cold War. While reforms to ...

In 1962, as the Cuban Missile Crisis pushed the world to the edge of nuclear war, the RF-101 Voodoo became America’s most ...

No one has launched a nuclear weapon in war since 1945, when U.S. president Harry S. Truman bombed Japan. Support for that decision—the only use of atomic arms in a conflict—has decreased over time.

The launch of Russia's heavy nuclear missile cruiser has been postponed indefinitely due to the cost of its repairs and modernization, according to the Russian news outlet Izvestia. The heavy ...

Vandenberg Space Force Base announced the U.S. military will be test-launching an unarmed nuclear missile from northern Santa Barbara County early Wednesday morning. Southern California residents ...

A rocket launched from southern New Mexico on June 13 was used to help develop the technology for launching atomic weapons as the federal government rebuilds its nuclear arsenal. The device, carrying ...

For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

Nuclear Operating System (NOS) will achieve on-time, on-budget nuclear construction DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Palantir Technologies Inc. (PLTR), the world's leading provider of enterprise operating ...

WALL, S.D. — Jim Boensch points out a number of switches and lights on a nearby electronic console. He gives a detailed rundown of what each does as well as gives a demonstration of an ear-piercing ...

Two political leaders have exchanged barbs recently underlining the powerful nuclear arsenals of their respective nations. It was not just a pointless demonstration of bravado — it also showed that ...