Minuteman III missiles are deployed in silos across Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota and Wyoming. They are assigned to three operational units known as missile wings.

We traveled to the remote regions of North Dakota to embed with the U.S. Air Force and learn what it takes to safeguard and ...

American nuclear forces consist of ballistic missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bomber ...

The year’s second Minuteman III missile, equipped with a mock warhead outfitted with sensors to collect data, is set for a test launch early Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base ...

Crews at Vandenberg Space Force Base safely terminated an unarmed Minuteman III missile test early Wednesday morning after something went awry during the flight. Space Launch Delta 30 personnel at ...

An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 12:21 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

The replacement for the ground-based U.S. nuclear arsenal anchored by the Minuteman III has officially busted through its $95.8 billion budget due to the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation, the Air ...

Nine military officers who had worked decades ago at a nuclear missile base in Montana, home to a vast field of 150 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos, have been diagnosed with ...

Each launch of the US Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) contributes to the development of the new-generation strategic missile system known as Sentinel, according to Yevgeny ...

FILE PHOTO: Sgt. Stephen M. Kravitsky inspects an LGM-30G Minuteman III missile inside a silo about 60 miles from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D. Kravitsky was named as one of the Outstanding Airmen ...

FILE - An inert Minuteman III missile is seen in a training launch tube at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., June 25, 2014.