Nuclear Modernization

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 […]

Senior Pentagon leaders on Tuesday were pressed on the department’s ongoing review of cost overruns with the Sentinel future intercontinental ballistic missile program, which is expected to be detailed to […]

The Department of Justice on Tuesday said Consolidated Nuclear Security paid $18.4 million to settle allegations of timecard fraud at the Pantex Plant that date back to the company’s takeover […]

The Kansas City National Security Campus in March produced a proof-of-concept replacement fuse for an Air Force nuclear weapon, the Sandia National Laboratory said last week.  The Missouri site cranked […]

It could cost up to $37 billion to acquire the pair of plutonium pit production facilities needed to produce new nuclear weapon cores for the rest of this century, the […]

The Missouri House of Representatives was set to vote as soon as this week on bills that would give tax breaks for the planned expansion of the Kansas City Nuclear […]

A U.S. Senator asked Tuesday if a planned manufacturing plant in Kansas poses a threat to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s nearby factory in Missouri for non-nuclear nuclear-weapon components. The […]