You have to be a real optimist to think that we can keep thousands of nuclear weapons in fallible human hands indefinitely and nothing terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen—and it could ...

DENVER — This is not meant to scare you, but Colorado is designed to absorb a nuclear attack. The Centennial State is part of the "nuclear sponge." Nuclear weapon silos buried in northern Colorado, ...

Montana is known to residents as either the “Treasure State” or “The Big Sky State,” but to defense experts, it’s just a “nuclear sponge.” That’s a technical term that reveals, among other things in a ...

If Russia were to launch a nuclear attack against the United States, what would the targets be? You might guess the most likely targets would be major cities like Washington D.C. or New York City, and ...

Like a bolt from the blue, the Pentagon’s program for building a new nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile, known as the LGM-35A Sentinel, has blown past its most recent baseline cost projection ...

There are several U.S. states that still house a large number of nuclear missile silos in a concentrated area. These states are what is known as a nuclear sponge. The question is: do you live in one ...

An LGM-30 Minuteman III missile soars after a test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in this undated photo. Capt. Javon Quarles of the 321st Missile Squadron mission combat crew ...

The U.S. Air Force’s Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) — or what some are calling “the Money Pit Missile“ — is designed to replace the existing fleet of Minuteman III missiles. Like its ...

Montana is known to residents as either the “Treasure State” or “The Big Sky State,” but to defense experts, it’s just a “nuclear sponge.” That’s a technical term that reveals, among other things in a ...