Discover the high-stakes strategy behind Operation Chrome Dome, the U.S. Air Force’s airborne nuclear alert mission. Learn ...

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is one of the most iconic heavy bombers in history, and in 2015, it marked an incredible ...

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on ...

Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force test pilot Fitzhugh L. “Fitz” Fulton Jr. was in the cockpit.

A B-2 bomber can fly 6,000 nautical miles — just under 7,000 miles — without refueling, climbing to 10,000 miles with one ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear catastrophe is back.

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.