Fully qualified airborne missile combat crews aboard airborne launch control center aircraft would execute the president's orders. The Minuteman weapon system was conceived in the late 1950s and ...

Name of project: Minuteman. Nature of Minuteman: a whole new weapons system of 3,000 to 4,000 solid-fuel “second-generation” missiles of variable 500-mile to 5,500-mile range, each to be kept ...

An unarmed United States Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an ... drew criticism from the arms control community as it is a state party to the 2017 Treaty on the ...

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 ...

The Minuteman missile carried no nuclear payload but was ... But the ground-based systems for Sentinel - particularly its control infrastructure - proved to be more complicated than the Pentagon ...

The control stations for America’s nuclear ... But there are questions as to whether some of the Cold War-era aspects of the Minuteman missiles the Sentinel will replace should be changed.

who’s closely followed the Minuteman III program. “The Air Force should take a fresh look” at whether extending the life of the older missiles could eliminate “the need for the Sentinel ...