{"id":73743,"date":"2017-11-12T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/us-air-force-hires-two-firms-to-start-developing-americas-next-icbm"},"modified":"2017-11-12T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:42:33","slug":"us-air-force-hires-two-firms-to-start-developing-americas-next-icbm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/us-air-force-hires-two-firms-to-start-developing-americas-next-icbm","title":{"rendered":"US Air Force Hires Two Firms to Start Developing America\u2019s Next ICBM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-air-force-hires-two-firms-to-start-developing-americas-next-icbm2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boeing and Northrop Grumman have each received deals to start developing a replacement for the Minuteman III.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Trump administration placed orders with two <\/strong>major defense firms on Monday to start working on technology for new intercontinental ballistic missiles to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III.<\/p>\n<p>The deals come amid nuclear threats against the U.S. by North Korea and increased tension with Russia, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-new-icbm-2017-story.html\">upgrading its ICBMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/business\/2017\/08\/us-air-force-orders-new-icbms\/140405\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer19556&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/business\/2017\/08\/us-air-force-orde...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boeing and Northrop Grumman have each received deals to start developing a replacement for the Minuteman III. The Trump administration placed orders with two major defense firms on Monday to start working on technology for new intercontinental ballistic missiles to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III. The deals come amid nuclear threats against the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}