A test launch of an Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from north Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for this coming Tuesday or Wednesday.

The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

How does a single missile unleash multiple nuclear warheads on different targets? MIRVs (Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles) are one of the deadliest weapons ever developed. In this ...

The Japanese missile can evade defenses by traveling at more than five times the speed of sound and maneuvering within the atmosphere.

A Forbes report had quoted Kirill Sazonov, a Ukrainian war correspondent, to claim that Russia launched the Oreshnik missile ...

After warning U.S. officials of its intention to launch, Russia lobbed a mysterious new ballistic missile—initially mistaken ...

In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...