Nuclear Modernization

Overturning the nuclear triad concept and reducing funding significantly for the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and the U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber and Sentinel next-generation ICBM […]

The Air Force’s Global Strike Command and U.S. Space Force on June 4 launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, equipped with one re-entry vehicle. The test is part […]

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration signed a memorandum of understanding that seeks to solidify the nuclear security and relationship between the […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to address Government Accountability Office recommendations about recruiting and retaining new contract and federal workers by the end of the year, the agency told […]

The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted to keep legally binding  pit-production dates that the National Nuclear Security Administration does not believe it will meet. It was one of […]

Colorado-based Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) said that its win last month for the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) will help “expand” the defense industrial base beyond top-tier […]

On May 14, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory completed the first in the Nimble series of underground subcritical experiments at the Nevada National Security Site, according to a press release. […]

The U.S. Air Force and DoD are to complete a Nunn-McCurdy review of the Northrop Grumman [NOC] LGM-35A Sentinel next generation ICBM in the next six weeks, Pentagon acquisition chief […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s weapons programs would be authorized for slightly more than requested and its nonproliferation programs for slightly less if a defense bill published Monday becomes law. […]

The schedule for one of Sentinel’s nuclear warheads will not change until at least the end of the Air Force’s review of the budget-busting missile, the head of the National […]