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 ...

China does not normally test-launch its nuclear missiles on the island of Hainan, which faces the South China Sea.

With its latest missile test, China displays a growing confidence in its nuclear arsenal. It also offers an opportunity for ...

Last month's launch of Beijing's deadliest intercontinental ballistic missile outside Chinese airspace puts spotlight on its ...

small fires continue to burn in the forest to the east of the launch complex and four fire trucks can be seen near the destroyed silo," Barros added. The Sarmat missile is Russia's largest ICBM ...

Walking down the truck-sized ramp to the 47-ton blast door of the decommissioned Atlas missile silo, our conversation echoes ...

(By comparison, America’s Minuteman III ICBM is 16 meters long and weighs ... if trying to precisely knock out enemy nuclear missile silos. By contrast, Sarmat supposedly has a range of 9,940 ...

According to satellite photos, a Russian Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile probably detonated ... destruction suggests that the missile exploded in the silo.” Podvig added that a ...

The imagery shows a 200-foot-wide crater at the launch silo and damage around ... is a three-stage liquid-fueled ICBM. Russia began developing the missile in the 2000s as a replacement for the ...

Russia has been testing the combat readiness of its Yars intercontinental ballistic missile unit in the Tver region, aiming ...