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1966 encounter prompts challenge: ‘Come on out and tell the truth’
A UFO encounter at a North Dakota nuclear site prompted an Air Force captain to defy an order of silence in his search for ...
In major expansion of US nuclear buildup, Trump orders construction of nationwide missile defense system
President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a new missile defense system covering the United States, the latest move ...
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The $130 Billion Plan to Replace the U.S.’s Minuteman Nuclear Missiles
The U.S.'s Minuteman nuclear missiles were only supposed to last 10 years—now, they’ve defended the U.S. for more than 50. WSJ explains the logistical challenges of replacing them. WSJ ...
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LGM-30 Minuteman III
The "L" in LGM is the Department of Defense designation for silo-launched; "G" means surface attack; "M" stands for guided missile, the 30 stands for the Minuteman series of missile and the G ...
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Defense: The Missile Gap
Only one U.S. missile—a Polaris—has ever been fired with an atomic war head aboard. Minuteman, says General Power, “has never been operationally tested all the way through from stockpile to ...
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Skyrocketing cost of US nuclear missile program spurs reckoning
The U.S. could continue life-extending the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which at the time had been deployed for close to 50 years, or modernize the system in a major ...
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The Air Force is investigating whether an airman smoked weed at a missile alert facility for nuclear Minuteman ICBMs
responsible for overseeing 400 nuclear GM-30G Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota By Jared Keller Posted on Oct 23, 2019 The Air Force is ...