The following is the Oct. 17, 2024, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Defense Primer: LGM-35A Sentinel ...

Much of the United States' nuclear arsenal was dismantled years ago, but a surprising number of ICBMs remain in operation ...

If you assumed a broadly unlikely 100 percent hit rate, using just one Russian warhead for each of America’s known 450 ...

China’s decision to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the Pacific Ocean on 25 September was unusual—but ...

The 91st Missile Wing successfully performed its biennial Simulated Electronic Launch Minuteman test, the first phase of ...

The U.S. conducted two Minuteman III ICBM test launches in 2023, one in June and one in September. Tom Karako, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Missile Defense ...

The US notably conducts ICBM readiness tests regularly by launching Minuteman III ICBMs into the Pacific. These tests are fairly routine, unlike the Chinese test, which was the first such test ...

The U.S. also routinely tests its ICBM, the Minuteman III, with the last launch in June from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

In June, the US fired a Minuteman III ICBM from California into a test site that is part of the territory of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.

China's military launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from its southern coast deep into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, its defense ministry has said, in the first such test since the 1980s.

New satellite imagery indicates Russia may have conducted a failed intercontinental ballistic missile test in recent days involving its Sarmat ICBM, also known as the Satan II. A satellite image ...