Why The US Navy Continues To Launch Ballistic Missiles From Nuclear Submarines

United States military submarines are a crucial component to the country's nuclear triad, wielding the ability to launch ...

"A House of Dynamite": Battling a nuclear nightmare

The latest white-knuckle thriller by director Kathryn Bigelow imagines the responses within the government and the military ...

-Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile -think tank

Satellite imagery of a North Korean shipyard on Friday shows activity suggestive of preparations for a test of a medium-range submarine-launched ballistic missile, a U.S. think tank reported on Friday ...

Putin’s closest ally gives starkest nuclear war threat yet over US missiles as peacemaker Trump turns eyes to Ukraine

VLADIMIR Putin’s closest ally has issued his most chilling nuclear war threat yet. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, ...

Nuclear missile workers are contracting cancer. They blame the bases.

PCBs are synthetic chemicals once used in industry, including missile control electrical components such as display screens, ...

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's ...

The Nuclear Age by Serhii Plokhy — why nations want the bomb

Serhii Plokhy’s The Nuclear Age is both a history of nuclear armament and a homily to its dangers. Like almost everything ...
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Do We Still Need Nuclear Missile Launch Officers?

Earlier this month, 34 nuclear missile launch officers were implicated in a cheating scandal at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. According to reports the officers, were part of a group who ...