The U.S. has established the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system to defend the homeland against North Korean ICBM attacks.

It would take just four senators to stand up at the table, take the cards away from the president and announce that the house ...

Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and Kevin Cramer ... allow for an expansion of the GMD system at Fort Greely up to 80 missile silos – doubling the number of silos already in place – and it would ...

accepting the damage that the intact silo’s missile might cause.) This basic force structure is a product of operations analysis and refinement over the 80 years of the nuclear age, grounded in the ...

A recent test project indicated using existing silos with the new Sentinel system would lead to project delays and more costs ...

The troubled LGM-35 Sentinel ICBM program hit another hurdle as new assessments reveal a previous plan to re-use LGM-30 Minuteman III missile silos may not be feasible. Breaking Defense reports ...

The Iranian Defense Minister stated, "If war is forced upon us, we will use weapons that have not been used until now," and that "Iran's missile silos are full and will be used without hesitation ...

(A1C Braydon Williams/Air Force) The Air Force will have to dig entirely new nuclear missile silos for the LGM-35A Sentinel, creating another complication for a troubled program that is already ...