On the night of January 15, during a massive attack on Ukraine, russian troops launched Kh-55SM cruise missiles with full-size mock-ups of warheads to complicate the work of Ukrainian air defense ...

It is responsible for storing and securing warheads that are not deployed at military installations, and for dismantling retired warheads. The NNSA plays a critical role in preventing the spread ...

The Energy Department recently finished modernizing the B61-12 nuclear bomb, extending its service life by at least 20 years. Devan Halstead, U.S. Air Force ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has completed the $9-billion B61-12 warhead upgrade for deployment on F-35A, B-2, and F-15E aircraft. Known as “gravity bombs,” the B61 series has ...

It is important to remember that the B61-12 is not a “new” weapon in the strict sense of the word, as it takes the warheads from the older bombs and puts them in the new body, thus leaving the ...

WASHINGTON — Seventeen years after it began design and development, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has completed work on the B61-12 nuclear warhead, the agency announced today.

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NAGASAKI--Although countries appear to be reducing their nuclear arsenals, the world now has more nuclear warheads available for deployment than five years ago, academics said. Nagasaki University ...

NAGASAKI—The world’s nine nuclear powers owned an estimated 12,720 warheads as of June 1, slightly down from a year earlier, but researchers here said the weapons have become more ...