For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a process to respond when it is under nuclear attack, but only ...

The recently released film *House of Dynamite* depicts the final 18 minutes of a desperate race against time as an unidentified nuclear missile heads toward the U.S. mainland. The story revolves ...