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The Air Force’s Minuteman III test sent a re-entry vehicle 4,200 miles to a Pacific atoll — proving a 50-year-old nuclear missile still flies true

Just after midnight on May 21, 2025, a streak of orange flame climbed out of a silo at Vandenberg Space Force Base on California’s central coast. An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile,

America tested a massive new weapon. Then a nuclear nightmare started falling from the sky.

How a deadly miscalculation turned a Cold War experiment into a radiological disaster.

Putin flexes muscle with test of powerful nuclear-capable missile

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that what he called the world’s most powerful missile system — dubbed “Satan II” by NATO — will be ready for “combat duty” by the end of the year after a successful test on Tuesday.

Russia holds nuclear war games in preparation to fend off 'aggression'

Major Russian air, sea and land military drills were underway with Belarus to practice deploying nuclear force in the event of an "aggression threat."

Putin hails Russia's test launch of new ICBM known as Satan II, calls it "most powerful missile in the world"

Russia tested a new long-range missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, months after the last treaty with the U.S. expired.
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‘World’s most powerful’: Russia tests Satan II nuclear missile with 21,700-mile range

Russia on Tuesday carried out a test launch of its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic
MLive

Inside the nuclear weapons research Los Alamos will conduct with University of Michigan

ANN ARBOR, MI - Plans to bring a research center tied to one of the country’s largest nuclear weapons laboratories to southeast Michigan is drawing sharp scrutiny. The proposed University of Michigan and Los Alamos National Laboratory site would be ...
Military.com

North Korea Says Its Latest Weapons Tests Included Missiles with Cluster-Bomb Warheads

North Korea said its testing spree this week involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, as it pushes to expand nuclear-capable forces aimed at rival South Korea. SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea ...