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 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.

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 ...

However, according to reports, its not yet known whether the US has deployed the B61-12 nuclear bomb at NATO bases in Europe or if the deployment is still being processed. This B61-12 nuclear bomb ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully deployed, and we have raised NATO's awareness of our nuclear capabilities through visits to our facility and other regular activities," her words were quoted on ...

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 ...