A Retiring Admiral Talks About The Future Of The U.S. Navy And It's Strategic Nuclear Submarines

USS Michigan (SSBN-727) Budget Cuts Could Reshape The Country’s Ship Supply, Official Says. -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post Does the Unite...

Who Is Launching Cyber Attacks On America's Nuclear Command And Control Systems

Securing Command -- Washington Free Beacon Strategic commander worried about cyber attacks on nuclear command and control. U.S. strategic nu...

White House To Cut U.S. Nuclear Arsenal By A Third

Obama Ready To Cut Strategic Nuclear Arsenal 'By A Third' -- The Guardian Report says the decision has been made, but not yet signed...

Is America's Nuclear Missile Force Crumbling?

Photo : Staff Sgt. Kevin Gorney checks out the electrical system aboard an LGM-30F Minuteman III missile in its silo, Jan. 1, 1980. Air Forc...

A Virtual Tour Of America's Nukes

The UCS Nuclear Weapons Complex Map -- Union Of Concerned Nuclear Scientists The UCS Nuclear Weapons Complex Map is a free, publicly availab...

U.S. State Department: Recommends Deeper Nuclear Force Cuts Including Unilateral Reductions

Disarming America -- Washington Free Beacon State Department advisory board urges deeper nuclear force cuts including unilateral reductions....

Making The Case For Keeping America's Nuclear Triad

Keep Triad 'Best Blend' Of ICBMs, Boomers, Bombers; 'We Can Afford Them' -- Maj. Gen. William Chambers, Aol Defense One of ...

A Look At The U.S. Military's Massive Nuclear Spending

Exploding Budgets -- Time The government is set to spend $640 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs over the next ten years. If yo...

Modernizing America's Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Will Cost $300 Billion

(Click on Image to Enlarge) SOURCE: Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Strategic Studies Quarterly Fall ...

As Long as Russia, China Have Nukes, So Will America

Photo: Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler U.S. General: As Long as Russia, China Have Nukes, So Will America -- US News And World Report Washingt...

Who Is Going To Build America's Next Generation Of Nuclear Weapons?

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the U.S. Navy's Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarine USS Nevada (SSBN 733) off th...

Inside A Nuclear Silo

Nuclear missile launch teams tether cases containing classified documents to their bodies before heading off to their 24-hour-alert shift in...

More Reductions In America's Nuclear Arsenal Studied

Pentagon Studying Additional Nuke Reductions -- Global Security Newswire The U.S. Defense Department has received an Obama administration di...

Life In A Nuclear Silo

In Nuclear Silos, Death Wears A Snuggie -- The Danger Room At a small United States Air Force installation in eastern Wyoming, I’m sitting a...

Is Our Nuclear Stockpile Safe? Questions For The Head of Global Strike Command

Photo: Crews at Malmstrom Air Force Base fit a dummy nuclear warhead onto a missile. (Photo by Jonothan Targovnick) Questions For Lt. Gen. ...

Acronyms Of A Nuclear Missile Launch

From Popular Mechanics: "LF" popped up on the screen in a bunker containing intercontinental ballistic missiles this past week. Wh...

More Fallout From Last Week's U.S. Missile Malfunction

Official Says Missile Malfunction Not A Sign Of Greater Problems -- CNN Washington (CNN) -- A high-level Air Force official defended the cap...

15% Of Landbased U.S. Nuclear Missile Forces Were Temporarily Offline On Saturday.

Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles -- The Atlantic President Obama was briefed this morning on an engineering power failure at ...

U.S. Nuclear Missile Silos From 1980 - 2010 (Pictures)

(Click Image To Enlarge) 090601-F-6655M-763. Sen. Mark Begich, center left, and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, center right, listen t...

The U.S. Has 5,113 Active Nuclear Warheads

U.S. Says Nuclear Arsenal Includes 5,113 Warheads -- Reuters (Reuters) - The United States disclosed for the first time on Monday the curren...