The USS Nimitz is retiring this year, at the venerable age of 51. Here are 10 memorable pieces of history from her past five decades of service.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard has claimed it struck the large aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles. The US has called it a lie, saying the carrier remains fully operational.

While the carrier remained docked, sailors and technicians also conducted system tests on communications equipment and aircraft support facilities. The U.S. Navy routinely performs these additional ...

On her long trip to the scrapyard, the venerable aircraft carrier will sail around South America and participate in naval exercises.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah — The Pentagon and the Energy Department for the first time airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is U.S. potential to ...

Small, possibly portable, nuclear reactors that can’t melt down are moving toward reality in the United States, with what may be the first two coming online or beginning construction this year. The US ...

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A next-generation nuclear reactor left March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on Sunday in a first-of-its-kind airlift. The modules of the reactor were loaded aboard three C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, and ...

Less than three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced the creation of the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group, Texas has become one of the main testing grounds in the United States for small ...

The Pentagon said it has airlifted a next-generation nuclear reactor from California to Utah to boost energy security and reduce the military’s reliance on the civilian power grid. The reactor was ...

The Departments of Energy and Defense airlifted a small nuclear reactor for the first time as part of the Trump administration's push for a nuclear energy renaissance in the U.S. The agencies ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah—The U.S. military airlifted a modern nuclear reactor on Sunday for the first time, part of President Trump’s push to deploy nuclear power across the United States. Three C-17 ...