US Troops, Carrier Brace for Possible Fallout from Scrapped Iran Deal Thousands of U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq have been bolstered by the aircraft carrier Truman and its strike group.
North Korea Says It Tested a New Hypersonic Intermediate-Range Missile that Uses Solid Propellants With the supposed success of the demonstration, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared his country had acquired the ability...
'Fracture Jaw': The Army's Plan to Use Tactical Nuclear Weapons During the Vietnam War On Jan. 24, 1968, Westmoreland asked Sharp to move tactical nuclear weapons into northern Quang Tri province as a last-ditch...
Army Cancels Planned Public Visits to Trinity Bomb Site in April. You Can Blame 'Oppenheimer.' The Army has canceled the April 6 open house for the public to visit the New Mexico site of the Trinity atomic bomb blast for...
US and Japan Seek UN Resolution Calling on All Nations to Ban Nuclear Weapons in Outer Space The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop...
Air Force Missile Base Personnel Have Elevated Breast, Prostate Cancer Rates, Initial Study Results Indicate The early results, shared by the service and reported for the first time here, indicate elevated rates of breast and prostate...
Putin Says Russia Is Ready to Use Nuclear Weapons if Its Sovereignty or Independence Is Threatened President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its statehood, sovereignty...
The US Military Almost Deployed Nuclear Missile Trains on American Railroads During the Cold War The Cuban Missile Crisis was two decades in the rearview, but in the early 1980s, Cold War tensions between the United States...
The US Military Already Has a Decades-Old Countermeasure for Russian Space Nukes During the Cold War, the Air Force used an F-15 and a specially designed missile to destroy a satellite in orbit.
North Korea's Kim Again Threatens Use of Nukes as He Praises Troops for Long-Range Missile Launch Despite Kim Jong Un's repeated threats to use nuclear weapons preemptively, many foreign experts say North Korea has yet to...
Here's Kamala Harris' Record on Veterans and Military Issues As vice president, Harris has supported Biden's major initiatives on service members and veterans, including the massive...
Pentagon Reviewing 20 Medal of Honor Awards Given to Soldiers at the Wounded Knee Massacre Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed a five-person panel to review the 20 Medals of Honor that the Army awarded to...
$450 Million B-1B Lancer Crash Attributed to Crew Failures and 'Degradation of Airman Skills' A B-1B Lancer valued at more than $450 million that crashed in South Dakota at the start of this year missed the runway by...
Navy SEALs, Sailors Who Refused COVID Vaccine Will Have Records Expunged After Legal Settlement The Navy also must correct the records of those who left the service after they weren't granted religious accommodation.
The Army Is Reducing Job Choice for New Recruits in 2 Critical Fields Both the field artillery and air defense fields, as well as surveillance and communications systems, will no longer allow...