Nuclear Weapons
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Air ForceB-52 Loses Gravity Bombs, Per Air Force Order
The Air Force officially ended the B52-H’s mission to carry nuclear gravity bombs late last year, according to an updated operating military manual making the rounds online this week. Air […]
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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 […]
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UncategorizedDoE Plans Expedited Environmental Review of Factories for Nuclear Cores
The Department of Energy plans a somewhat expedited environmental review of its plan to convert a partially built plutonium recycling plant at the Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C., into […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSmith Questions Air Force ‘Competence,’ Blames Mishandling of Proprietary Info for Boeing’s GBSD Exit
Questionable “competence” within Air Force procurement ranks helped turn a competition to build a fleet of next-generation nuclear missiles into a one-horse race, the chair of the House Armed Services […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Will Resume 10-Year Cost Forecasts for Weapons Complex Modernization
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) dinged the National Nuclear Security Administration recently for not providing 10 years’ worth of cost forecasts in an annual report to Congress on defense […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNNSA Administration Would ‘Seriously‘ Consider Service in a Second Trump Term
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), said Thursday she would give serious thought to remaining at her post, if President Trump wins a second term […]
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Navy/USMCBWXT Sitting Out Submarine Missile Tube Work Amid 3Q Earnings Boom
BWX Technologies [BWXT], trumpeting strong third-quarters results Tuesday, remained non-committal about building more common missile compartment tubes for U.S. naval submarines, beyond those the company is already under contract to […]
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CongressHouse Armed Services Chair Puts Long Odds On Blocking Low-Yield Nuke
Congress may not block the Navy from deploying a low-yield nuclear warhead this year after all, House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the weapon’s No. 1 detractor in […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Northrop Grumman Stands Alone on GBSD After Air Force Cuts Funds for Boeing Contract
The Air Force has pulled the plug nearly a year early on Boeing’s [BA] contract to mature technology for the next generation of silo-based, nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, the company […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNo. 2 DoE Nuke Official Briefs on ‘Staggering’ Hiring Goals for Civilian Nuclear Enterprise
The No. 2 official at the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on Wednesday briefed members of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board on the “staggering goal” of swelling the […]