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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Weapons Agency Says One Site Could Handle All Warhead Core Work, ‘If Needed’
Confirming what appeared intuitively obvious, the Department of Energy said Tuesday that Los Alamos National Laboratory will have to manufacture 80 nuclear weapon cores year by itself in 2030, if […]
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BudgetFirst GBSD Missiles Might Go Into the Ground With Old Minuteman III Warheads
When the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) arrives to replace the Minuteman III silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Minuteman III’s old nuclear warheads might go right back into the ground […]
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BudgetNNSA, DoE Selling Softer Take on Budget Drama That Could Cost the Navy a Submarine
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is selling its own version of intra-DoE skirmish that ended in January with President Trump approving a much larger raise for the civilian nuclear-weapons […]
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BudgetProposed Reshuffling of Nuclear Modernization Funds Won’t Hurt USAF, Service Chief Says
The Air Force will not be affected in fiscal year 2021 if Congress approves the White House’s plan to short the Pentagon budget by $2.5 billion to increase the National […]
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BudgetW93 Notionally Based on Previously Deployed Nuclear-Explosive Components, NNSA Boss Says
The W93 warhead will notionally be based on previously deployed nuclear-explosive components, the head of the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said here Tuesday. The W93, a […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSome W87 Warheads Will Go on GBSD Without Getting New Pits First
The Department of Energy and the Pentagon plan deploy W87-0 warheads, without new plutonium pit cores, on some Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missiles, potentially buying the civilian agency more […]
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BudgetArmed Services Chair Says DoE Has Cash Pile, Questions Planned Raid on Pentagon Progs for Nuke Mods
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday began to ink the contours of the 2021 nuclear-weapons budget fight to come, when the committee chair wondered in a hearing why the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationBechtel, Kratos, Get Spots on Northrop Grumman’s GBSD Team
Northrop Grumman [NOC] tapped Bechtel National and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions to provide construction services and specialized transportation equipment for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDrive to Replace Capacitors for Refurbished Nukes Causing Delays for ICBM Fuze Modernization
Complications with the B61-12 and W88 Alt-370 programs might delay production of new intercontinental ballistic missile fuzes at the Department of Energy’s Kansas City National Security Campus by more than […]
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DoE Seeks Massive Increase for ICBM Warhead, Pit Infrastructure in 2021
The Department of Energy seeks nearly a four-fold funding increase for development of the the W87-1, silo-based intercontinental ballistic-missile warhead in fiscal year 2021, plus more than $1 billion to […]