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Balky Capacitors Spell Delay for Nuclear Weapon Deliveries to DoD

Wednesday, May 8th, 2019

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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will be late with initial deliveries to the Pentagon of two refurbished nuclear weapons, the head of the semi-autonomous nuclear-weapons agency said Wednesday NNSA is part of the Department of Energy. The agency is refurbishing the B61 nuclear gravity bomb for the Air Force and the W88 submarine launched ballistic missile warhead for the Navy Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the NNSA administrator, told Defense Daily her agency has been evaluating the problem with the capacitors for…

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