Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear ModernizationPlanned W93 Warhead Will Contribute to new U.K. Nuke, DOD Officials Say
The proposed W93 sea-launched warhead, the nuclear tip of planned next-generation U.S. submarine-launched ballistic missiles, will share technology with United Kingdom’s next nuclear weapon, Pentagon officials said Thursday. W93 will […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLANL, LLNL Directors Won’t Say Who’d Own W93 Sea-Based Warhead; Hint at Competition
It remained uncertain Monday whether Los Alamos National Laboratory or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory would design the proposed, sea-based W93 warhead after the directors of each lab declined to say […]
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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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New 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 ModernizationDepartment of Energy Warns of Possible Delay Delivering Nuclear Weapon Components
The Honeywell [HON]-led company in charge of building the non-nuclear parts of nuclear weapons might have trouble delivering some of those components on time in 2020 and beyond, the Department of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPentagon Confirms Navy Has Deployed Low-Yield SLBM
The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday that it has deployed the W76-2 low-yield, submarine-launched, ballistic-missile nuclear warhead. “The U.S. Navy has fielded the W76-2 low-yield submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) warhead,” the Defense […]
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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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Navy/USMCSmith Is New Columbia Program Director At Huntington Ingalls
Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] appointed Brandi Smith program director of the Columbia-class submarine program at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, the shipbuilding subcontractor for the Navy’s next nuclear-armed ballistic-missile […]
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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 […]