Nuclear Warheads Mistakenly Flown Over U.S.
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An Air Force B-52 bomber carrying six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads flew across the central United States last week after the nuclear weapons were mistakenly attached to the airplane's wing, defense officials said today.
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On Amchitka Island, former site of nuclear-weapons testing, a federal monitoring program takes effect this week.
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How feasible is a nuclear terrorist attack on the U.S.?
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The Air Force has made substantial changes in its handling of nuclear weapons in the wake of a B-52 flight last August during which the pilots and crew were unaware they were carrying six air-launched cruise missiles with nuclear warheads, according to a policy directive approved last week.
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Highlights of the U.S. program to reduce the threat of terrorists obtaining nuclear materials in Russia and at foreign research reactors.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. A team of 20 scientists is joining the search for a missing H-bomb off the coast of Georgia. The government believes a report of some unusual radiation readings might be coming from a hydrogen bomb that was lost near Tybee Island in 1958.
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A mysterious Syrian military facility that was reportedly the target of an attack by Israeli jets last month has been razed, according to a new satellite image that shows only a vacant lot in the place where Syria was recently constructing what some U.S. officials believe was a nuclear reactor.
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Russia expressed surprise on Tuesday that the United States had scrambled fighter jets at the weekend to intercept strategic Russian bombers, one of which flew over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific.
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SEOUL, South Korea - A huge mushroom cloud that reportedly billowed up from North Korea was not caused by a nuclear explosion, South Korean and U.S. officials said Sunday, but they said the cause was a mystery...
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Two U.S. jets appear to have crossed into Turkish airspace over the border with Iraq inadvertently
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Making nuclear power plants crash-proof to an airliner attack by terrorists is impracticable, and it's up to the military to avert such an assault
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Airspace bar from surface to 'unlimited' altitude The US military has issued a warning notice barring flights above a large area of the northern Pacific for two and a half hours early on Thursday morning. The stricken spy satellite marked for destruction by US warships will pass over the taped-off area just at this time, indicating that the first shot will take place then.â¦
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Japan sent two destroyers and a surveillance airplane to the Sea of Japan on Thursday, American and Japanese government officials said, after the United States and Japan detected
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Nukes and gases may be on Bin Laden's wish list, but explosives that can be easily smuggled on board airliners are accessible and potentially devastating
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The signs say "KEEP OUT" and warn of radiation contamination, but the mushroom-pickers trudge right past them carrying their pails. Eighteen years after the reactor at Chernobyl in neighboring Ukraine exploded, spewing a cloud of radiation that blew north and contaminated 22 percent of this ex-Soviet republic, activists warn of a new threat facing Belarusians: the longing to return to normal life.
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"There's a lot of Russian airborne activity above the Gulf of Finland, especially between Kaliningrad and the Russian mainland"  Russian military aircraft were intercepted by British and Norwegian jets Friday after they breached NATO airspace close to the U.K. and Finland, defense officials said.Finland's prime minister demanded an explanation from Moscow. Interception of Russian warplanes in NATO patrolled-airspace has become increasingly common since the Kremlin ordered strategic bombers to carry out long-range missions for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union.British fighter jets intercepted two Russian long-range bombers flying in NATO airspace and shadowed them until they charged course, Britain's defense ministry said, without revealing precisely where the incursion took place. The two Tu-160 'Blackjack' bombers were initially intercepted by Norwegian F16s, defense officials said. Read more
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Operators mistakenly took a Navy pilot's F/A-18 Hornet for an incoming Iraqi missile during the spring 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Central Command said Friday.