Nuclear Weapons

People placed on leave from the Los Alamos National Laboratory for refusing a COVID-19 vaccinations will get no help from the courts in ongoing arbitration proceedings with the lab, a […]

Earnings rose at BWX Technologies [BWXT], Lynchburg, Va., in the third quarter, which the nuclear contractor attributed during a Monday earnings report to growth throughout its naval, weapons cleanup and […]

Navy officials this week said the service plans to decide by fiscal year 2026 if it will extend the USS Alaska (SSBN-732) as the first of several Ohio-class ballistic missile […]

The Biden Administration will maintain all three legs of the U.S. nuclear triad, which need to be modernized to remain relevant, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. “At least in […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will create a new risk management strategy with the Pentagon, mandate more regular infusions of new technology into nuclear-weapons design and manufacture and build […]

The prime contractors for civilian nuclear-weapon sites get no “lasting benefit” from their corporate parent companies, the interests of which may conflict with national security, a small group of National […]

Mark Martinez planned to retire as president of Mission Support and Test Services, the Honeywell [HON]-led prime contractor for the Nevada National Security Site, according to people familiar with Martinez’s […]

Congress should not authorize or fund a nuclear-tipped, lower-yield sea-launched cruise missile or save a megaton-class gravity bomb, the White House said again Tuesday. The message was part of a […]

In the nine months just ended, renationalization of the U.K. nuclear weapons complex cost Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Space segment more than three quarters of a billion dollars, the company reported […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will take over the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., by 2025, and the transition has started, the Department of Energy confirmed Tuesday. The […]