China has readied more than 100 long-range nuclear missiles at key launch sites around the country, a bombshell Pentagon memo has revealed. The report, released just before Christmas, found Beijing ...

For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...