Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)

The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...

A test launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base went awry "due to an anomaly." The cause of what went wrong with the nuclear...

The Air Force successfully launched a long-range, nuclear-capable missile during a scheduled test out of California on...

A high-resolution satellite picture taken Friday showed the batteries' pads at the site empty, with no visible activity.

The aborted mission comes as the Pentagon faces increased scrutiny over its efforts to develop next-generation ICBMs to...

A requirement to return a portion of the Air Force bomber fleet to alert status would  deteriorate and exhaust the force, a...

Adm. Charles Richard rejected suggestions to save money by trying to life-extend the 50-year-old ICBMs.

As the ICBM intercept test was a preliminary test of a new combat capability, the ICBM target did not deploy countermeasures.

The new ICBM will replace the Minuteman III, which was designed to last a decade and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary...

Wednesday marks 50 years since America's Minuteman III ICBM was first placed on alert at Minot Air Force Base.