Nuclear Stockpile
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UncategorizedAfter Slips, First Versions of Refurbed Nukes Coming in 2022, 2021
After delays attributed to unsuitable electrical components, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) now plans to manufacture the first refurbished B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb and W88 Alt-370 submarine-launched ballistic-missile warhead […]
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Nuclear ModernizationProposed W93 Warhead Would Be Rapidly Upgradable, Serviceable by Navy
The Department of Energy made post Cold War-history in its 2021 budget request, which seeks funds to develop a new sea-based nuclear warhead designated Mk7 W93 — a new warhead […]
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BudgetNew DoE Secretary Backs Big Budget Increase for Civilian Nuclear Weapons Programs in 2021
The roughly $20 billion budget the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration requested on Monday is “the right number” to reverse a decade of “neglect” in the U.S. nuclear-weapons […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAir Force Tests Minuteman III Missile One Year From Expiration of New START
The Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the early morning hours on Wednesday, testing a new fuze that will set off the nuclear warhead tipping […]
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Nuclear ModernizationEx-Nuke Lab Scientist To Be Sentenced In April For Alleged Lies About Chinese Connection
A federal judge is scheduled on April 22 to sentence a former Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist who has pleaded guilty to lying about his relationship with a Chinese talent […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Backs Off Drive To Speed Up Pit Production At Los Alamos
Last spring, the Department of Energy quietly backed off a drive to produce 30 pits a year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory earlier than the agency’s long-established target of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE Dipping Into Cold War Leftovers for Future Depleted Uranium Needs
The Department of Energy has decided to use a Cold War nuclear weapons cleanup in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The civilian agency’s […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Extends JASONs Contract for One Year
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is extending its contract with the panel of scientists known as JASON for up to a year, while the Pentagon works to resurrect its […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo Plan to Consolidate Pit Mission at Single Site, But DoE Won’t Deny the Possibility
The head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would not rule out the possibility here Thursday that one of the agency’s two planned plutonium pit factories could independently supply […]
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Nuclear ModernizationJASONs Endorse Fast Start to New Plutonium Pit Complex
The JASON group of scientists has endorsed a plan to immediately begin building new infrastructure to produce fresh nuclear weapon cores, according to a letter written by the group’s program manager and […]