Nuclear Stockpile

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on the contract for the JASON civilian science advisory panel even as contractor MITRE Corp. works on multiple studies for the National Nuclear Security […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can only wait five to seven more years before beginning a potentially costly life-extension program on the megaton-class B83 gravity bomb, a senior agency […]

The head of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) moved to protect weapons life-extension programs and plutonium infrastructure from the budget ax wielded here Tuesday by the House’s top […]

Proportionally or by raw dollars, the W80-4 life-extension program would get the biggest increase of any active Department of Energy warhead refurbishment in 2020, if the Trump administration’s budget request […]

A day after the Department of Energy released some 650 pages of details on its $16.5-billion nuclear-weapons budget request for 2020, the chair of the House Appropriations panel that funds […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking $410 million for fiscal 2020 to begin converting a canceled plutonium disposal plant in South Carolina into a factory to produce nuclear-warhead […]

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) a friend of the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories who has spent the last two decades on Capitol Hill, on Monday announced he will not […]

The U.S. should modernize its nuclear forces whether it can secure arms control agreements with Russia or not, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said here Tuesday at […]

The White House is seeking $16.5 billion for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for fiscal 2020: a roughly 8-percent increase from just over $15 billion in 2019 that, a […]

The United States does not need intercontinental ballistic missiles to prevent a nuclear attack on its territory, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said in a hearing here […]