Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear Modernization‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ on New START Appears to Fall Apart; Russia Seeks 1-Year Extension, No Strings
The Kremlin is open to a one-year extension of the New START nuclear arms control treaty, but not on the terms the White House has proposed, according to a widely […]
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Nuclear ModernizationComplicated Restart of Niobium Alloy Production at DoE Could Delay Nuclear Weapons Deliveries, GAO Says
Future nuclear weapons programs will be delayed if the Department of Energy is not able to produce depleted-uranium-niobium alloy ingots in Oak Ridge, Tenn., in the next three years, according […]
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Business/FinancialNext Y-12/Pantex Contract Won’t Draw Protest, Will Happen on Time, NNSA Acquisition Boss Says
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) enterprise-wide procurement honcho predicted a competition to pick a new management contractor for the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex would conclude […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBillingslea Issues Clarion Call to Arms Control Community as ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ on New START Appears to Fall Apart
The Trump administration’s lead nuclear negotiator on Tuesday called on the arms control community to publicly back the White House’s drive to condition an indeterminate extension of the New START […]
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COVID-19Nuke Engineering Labs Had Nine New COVID Cases Last Week
The Sandia National Laboratories confirmed nine new cases of COVID-19 among its workforce last week, raising the lab network’s total since the start of the outbreak to 86 cases. As […]
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Business/FinancialMore Big Companies, Another University Hopeful, Looking at DoE Nuke Production-Site Contract
A pair of university systems plus just about every major contractor to run the sites in the last decade-plus were among the 49 entities whose representatives toured the Y-12 National […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore Wraps Customer Requirements Review for W87-1, Holds to 2030 First-Production Date
In the second-to-last week of fiscal year 2020, the Department of Energy wrapped up its customer requirements review with the Department of Defense for the W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDoE May Need to Ready First GBSD Warhead Variant for Tests in Three Years, AF Official Says
The Department of Energy may need to start qualifying the W87 warhead for service aboard Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Missiles in roughly three years, the Air Force’s program director for […]
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Nuclear Modernization
NNSA Estimates W87-1 Will Cost Almost $15B, GAO Questions Ready Date
According to a recently declassified report, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) thinks it will cost some $14.8 billion to build W87-1 warheads for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Brain-Drain in Military ‘Bottomed Out,’ ‘Turned the Corner,’ LLNL Resident Scholar Says
A nuclear brain-drain in the military has shown signs of reversing course in the decade-plus since the mistaken delivery of nuclear-armed cruise missiles to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, […]