Enormous cost overruns have raised questions about how or if to go forward with the Sentinel, a new US intercontinental ballistic missile. The authors see five potential paths that might reduce costs.
The Sentinel program, led by Northrop Grumman, aims to replace the Minuteman III missiles that have been a core element of America’s nuclear deterrence strategy for over six decades. This ...
A former deputy director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Weaver was also principal director for US nuclear and missile defense ... director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment ...
The Pentagon is in the midst of an enormously expensive program aimed at building a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, ...
The film features a self-aware AI-enabled supercomputer that simulates a Soviet nuclear launch and convinces US ... costs and benefits, in the same way that targeters and planners have done for ...
Now the nation's nuclear missiles ... the US military's 450 silos and construct 3,100 miles of utility corridors and build 62,300-foot communication towers by 2036. The costs could balloon to ...
Despite real concerns over cost ... s Program on Science and Global Security found that an all-out attack on the nuclear sponge would lead to the deaths of millions of people in the US, Canada, ...
“We’re currently working with the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, the SWAC, to help us ... nuclear attack. That’s partly due to the urgency of the tracking capability but is also owed to ...
The U.S. Navy's Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine program, set to replace ... the largest submarines ever built by the United States. Each of the planned dozen boats ...
(The US has about 3,708 warheads, of which some 1,770 are ready for use on the tips of ballistic missiles or ... s upgrades of its nuclear arsenal are expected to cost more than $7.5 billion ...
It was too large, it cost ... ballistic missiles. And now, the military wants them again. The work on nuclear thermal rockets (NTRs) started with the Rover program initiated by the US Air Force ...
The United States ... one of these missiles on the Tarawa. In an unusual development, a U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, which is designed for dropping conventional and nuclear munitions ...