The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Pantex Deterrence LLC (PXD), the manager and operator of the Pantex Plant outside of Amarillo, announced Tuesday the completion of the last ...

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has announced the completion of the upgrade program of the new B61-12 nuclear weapons, and the impending start of manufacturing for the B61-13 ...

The Doomsday Clock may have just moved forward by a few seconds as the looming threat of a nuclear war between the United and Russia escalated by several notches after Washington recently deployed the ...

The B61 bomb’s reported ... As desirable as the B61-12 upgrades are, they’re only a partial, as opposed to an end-all-be-all, solution to the U.S. military’s nuclear needs.

after it completed an overhaul of the B61-12 nuclear bomb. The B61 family of gravity bombs are tactical nuclear weapons, and several iterations are deployed by the U.S. in Europe. The B61 is the ...

MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The B61-12, a US nuclear bomb, when authorized for service, may lower the threshold of using nuclear weapons, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non ...

The B61-12 replaces several earlier variants of the bomb after more than a decade of life-extension work costing $9 billion. An estimated 500 of the nuclear bombs are deployed with the Air Force ...

had completed a program to keep the B61-12 nuclear bomb in service for decades to come. The B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) was initiated in 2008, with a specific focus on upgrading the family ...

"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully deployed ... Hruby also emphasized the strength of Washington and London's strategic partnership on nuclear weapons. "Together, we are advancing our views on ...