The sea-based leg of the nuclear triad is arguably the most vital for America’s national defense. In the nuclear age, nation states have aspired to, and in a few cases realized, the nuclear ...

The ICBM is among three strategic weapons, in addition to ballistic missile submarines and bombers, that form the American nuclear triad for deterring adversaries. The U.S. military is modernizing ...

Pyongyang's expanding ICBM fleet now includes missiles believed to be capable of striking North American targets.

However, simultaneous modernization efforts across all three legs of the nuclear triad exceed that scope and are an unnecessarily costly and risky way to achieve our deterrence requirements.

Trump's disclosures about the nautical leg of America's nuclear triad — the number of nuclear warheads the submarines routinely carry and exactly how close they can get to Russian subs without ...

"Today, the nuclear triad remains the most important security guarantee for our country and people, a tool for maintaining strategic parity and balance of power in the world," the Russian leader ...