For decades, the United States was the pillar of nuclear restraint, convincing allies to forego nuclear weapons in exchange ...

The US spending $1.7 trillion on nuclear modernisation in 30 years and Emmanuel Macron’s reckless offering of a European ...

The United States Air Force and Northrop Grumman achieved a milestone last week in their efforts to modernize the land-based ...

The U.S. Air Force said that the service and Northrop Grumman conducted “a full-scale qualification static fire test of the Sentinel intercontinental ...

Brigadier General William Rogers, the US Air Force's ICBM program officer has said that the test of the intercontinental ...

Illustration of an LGM-35A Sentinel launch silo courtesy of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center The United States's ICBM force has remained on a continuous alert since 1959 and the Air Force's ...

The Air Force is now working on the LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile, the successor to its Minuteman III nuclear missile, and the B-21 Raider stealth bomber. The Air Force’s ...

This one is called the LGM-35A Sentinel, and tasked with making it is defense contractor Northrop Grumman. The new missile will launch just like the current one from underground silos and it's a ...

The Air Force will have to continue maintaining Minuteman III nuclear missiles longer than expected, with the LGM-35A Sentinel successor requiring a major restructuring that will delay its fielding.

From the Cold War’s Minutemen to the cutting-edge Sentinel missiles, explore the evolution of America’s ICBM arsenal and the enduring strategy of nuclear deterrence. History, innovation ...