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America’s B61 Nuclear Gravity Bomb Is Getting an Upgrade
The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of ...
US-Russia nuclear war threat looms as US deploys deadly B61-12 gravity bomb in..., its capable of...
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 ...
US Deploys Upgraded 'Gravity Bombs' to Europe
"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully forward deployed," said Jill Hruby, administrator for the National Nuclear Security ...
The Aviationist27d
U.S. Completes Upgrade of B61-12 Nuclear Weapons and Prepares Production of B61-13 Warheads
the NNSA is now transitioning to the production of the B61-13 bomb. According to an October 2024 report from the National Nuclear Security Administration, the First Production Unit (FPU ...
Amarillo Globe-News27d
Pantex completes last production unit of B61-12 nuclear weapon ahead of schedule
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 ...
Washington Times28d
U.S. completes nuclear gravity bomb upgrade
The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...
Task & Purpose5y
Why the US has nukes in Turkey — and why it’s so hard to remove them
A B-61 nuclear bomb at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona(Flickr/Kelly Michals) Sign up for Task & Purpose Today to get the latest in military news each morning, and The Pentagon ...
Ministers urged to clarify nuclear deployment
In a speech last week, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Jill Hruby, said "the new ...
The National Interest29d
The Department of Energy Just Completed Life Extension on a Key Nuclear Weapon
On Tuesday, the United States Department of Energy announced that its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) had completed a program to keep the B61-12 nuclear bomb in service for decades ...
TASS7y
US B61-12 nukes may lower threshold of using nuclear weapons, diplomat says
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 National Interest7d
America’s B61 Nuclear Gravity Bomb Is Getting an Upgrade
The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of ...