The red screen across the room from Lt. Colonel Stanislav Petrov's glass-walled office, usually blank, flashed a single ominous word: START. The computer system responsible for processing data ...

A final indignity: “As a missile crew watches the computer display for their mission briefing before starting each period of duty, they see the official classified Air Force screen saver which ...

North Korea on Monday described its latest ballistic missile launch as a simulated nuclear attack on South Korea as leader Kim Jong Un called for his nuclear forces to sharpen their war readiness ...

US test launches unarmed ICBM to test nuclear capabilities The U.S. conducted a test launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday.

If the test launch failed, it would serve as an embarrassing setback for Russian President Vladimir Putin. In September 2024, his feared Satan 2 nuclear arsenal was reported to have failed four ...

Work said in an interview ahead of Thursday's launch that he sees good progress in fixing the problems in the nuclear missile corps. He also said the Vandenberg test launches are critically important.

The test-launch of Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile on April 13, 2023, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. The nuclear-capable missile is capable of striking the continental ...