A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile and ...

This Boeing 747 doesn't carry passengers, nor is it a freighter plane... it carries a far more horrifying and deadly cargo of nuclear blastic weapons. With a capacity to fly across the ocean and ...

The Trident II nuclear missile, used since the end of the Cold War, will have its service life extended until 2084 through a ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack ...

Russia, for example, has roughly 1,700 deployed nuclear weapons ... in the early 1990s at the end of the Cold War, but elements of it live on in today's Missile Defense Agency, which oversees ...

Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation control and first-strike stability.

Amid these tensions, the world witnessed other critical events: the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolded in October 1962, bringing ...

What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...

During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY2.0 When the Cold War ... nuclear attack from U.S. submarines. After all, it was similar in speed and flight pattern to a missile.