Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By July 2024, the public knew the program had blown its budget. But the announcement was nonetheless staggering. The projected ...

Just off Interstate 90, the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site showcases Cold War history with its Delta01 control center and the decommissioned Delta09 silo, both telling stories of a tense ...

POBUZKE, Ukraine — In the middle of vast farm fields in southern Ukraine, you'll find what was once a secret Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile launch site. Today it's the Museum of Strategic ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and ...

The projected price of an Air Force program to build a next-generation nuclear missile – dubbed Sentinel – had risen 81%, from $77.7 billion to nearly $141 billion. That’s the equivalent of Americans’ ...

Hennadiy Vladimirovitch Fil, 65, former deputy commander of the Soviet Union's 309th Missile Regiment, stands near an old Soviet air defense missile at the Museum of the Strategic Missile Forces, ...

The Nuclear Sponge is a five-part explanatory project by USA TODAY that aims to inform readers about the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg of America’s nuclear triad. The United ...