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Ground Based Strategic Deterrent

Congress will hold a hearing about the Sentinel missile’s exploding budget, but is it too little, too late?

By Chloe Shrager | Nuclear Weapons

Artist's concept shows future ICBM blasting into sky

Best of 2021: Emerging experts on nuclear risks and climate change

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launched during a test

A millennial’s view: ICBMs are ridiculous

By Noah C. Mayhew | Climate Change, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

Detail from a report, "MX Missile Basing," issued im 1981 by the US Office of Technology Assessment.

Deep thoughts: How moving ICBMs far underground will make the whole world safer

By Ivan Oelrich | Nuclear Weapons

A US Air Force commander simulates launching a nuclear weapon.

The United States would be more secure without new intercontinental ballistic missiles

By Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Weapons

The political and military vulnerability of America’s land-based nuclear missiles

By Jon B. Wolfsthal | Nuclear Weapons

United States nuclear forces, 2017

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook

United States nuclear forces, 2016

By Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris | Nuclear Notebook