The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In. White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...
You Always Hear About the 'Nuclear Football.' Here's the Behind-the-Scenes Story The “nuclear football” is a bulky briefcase that contains atomic war plans and enables the president to transmit nuclear...
NATO Sees No Change in Russia's Nuclear Posture Despite Belarus Leader's Claims In an interview on state television on, Belarus' president brashly warned that he wouldn't hesitate to order tactical nuclear...
Watchdog: Nuclear States Modernize Their Weapons, Chinese Arsenal Is Growing A report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several...
Putin Says Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed to Belarus Next Month Putin said during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that work on building facilities for the nuclear...
Russia Signs Deal to Deploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of the shorter-range weapons in Belarus earlier this year in a move...
US Bomb Designed to Hit Targets Like Iran Underground Nuclear Sites Briefly Reappears Amid Tensions The U.S. developed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator in the 2000s as concerns grew over Iran hardening its nuclear sites by...
Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors Worry Zelenskyy's G7 Visit Overshadows Nuke Disarmament Message Zelenskyy, asked if he thought he took away attention from other summit issues, said only, "I need to be here.”
'Go Get Screened': Space Force Chief Urges Missileers to Get Tested as Cancer Study Underway The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine said last month it is conducting a study examining a potential link between...
DEFCON Levels DEFCON, short for Defense Readiness Condition or simply Defense Condition, is the U.S. military’s ranking system for defense...
How Marines Took an Airfield in the Philippines in a Show Against China On April 30, three combined littoral reconnaissance teams made up of roughly 30 U.S. and Philippine Marines each, flown by...
Army Eliminates Online Training Requirement for Noncommissioned Officers, Saying It's Too Burdensome The Army has eliminated a significant part of its online training for enlisted troops -- a learning program that has drawn...
For Decades, Recipients Were Honored with Purple Hearts Made During WWII. This Company Now Forges New Medals. For decades, recipients of the Purple Heart were honored with medals that had been forged during World War II, leftover stock...
Air Force Pilot Who Died After Aircraft Ejection Seat Misfire Identified by the Service Capt. John Robertson, an instructor pilot from the 80th Operations Support Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base, was injured...
Must-Pass Defense Bill Includes 4.5% Military Pay Raise on Top of 15% Increase for Junior Enlisted Troops The recommendation from the House Armed Services Committee in its draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or...