Nuclear Modernization
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Nuclear ModernizationU.S. Faces Low-Yield Nuclear Weapon Shortfall Against Russia and China, STRATCOM Commander Says
The U.S. military lags behind both Russia and China in building and fielding low-yield nuclear weapons and can address that gap by diversifying the military’s nuclear options, the head of […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCNS Launches Hiring Spree to Meet Cybersecurity Needs at NNSA Sites
Facing expanding mandates for information security at the two big nuclear-weapon production sites it manages, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) has launched a hiring spree for qualified information technology and cybersecurity […]
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Nuclear ModernizationAir Force Fires First Full-Scale Sentinel Solid Rocket Motor
Northrop Grumman [NOC] recently completed the first full-scale static test of an LGM-35A Sentinel solid rocket motor at its test facility in Promontory, Utah, marking yet another milestone on the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationUS Still Waiting For Russia To Explain What Moscow’s Suspension of Last Nuke Treaty Means
Russia’s suspension last week of the world’s biggest bilateral nuclear-weapons treaty is not official yet and Moscow was still talking to the State Department about the treaty as of Monday, […]
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Russia to ‘Suspend’ Participation in New START But Stick to Treaty’s Warhead Limits
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said Tuesday Russia will “suspend” its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty but adhere to the treaty’s limits on deployed strategic nuclear […]
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Nuclear ModernizationCourt Will Wait Until Late Summer To Decide Fate of Lawsuit About S.C. Nuclear-Weapon Plant
A nearly two year-old federal lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) planned plutonium-pit plant in South Carolina should enter its final stages this summer, […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDelays Mount For Underground Lab Upgrades Seen As Critical For New Navy Nuke
Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLivermore’s Next Subcritical Test Coming This Year
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was set to fire the first test in its Nimble series of subcritical experiments in the late summer, a senior lab official said Wednesday. “The […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Performs Sentinel Wind Tunnel Testing
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 16 that it executed wind tunnel tests of its LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM for the U.S. Air Force. “Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed […]
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Nuclear ModernizationPossible To Get 30 Pits at Los Alamos Before 2030, Lab Director Says
The Los Alamos National Laboratory might still be able to make 30 nuclear-weapon cores before 2030, even though the equipment needed to do it is not supposed to be ready […]