Nuclear Modernization

The Los Alamos National Laboratory expects to solicit bids in October for design and construction of a facility to treat liquid transuranic waste generated by future production of fissile nuclear-weapon cores, called […]

The Pentagon is pulling the plug on the contract for the JASON civilian science advisory panel even as contractor MITRE Corp. works on multiple studies for the National Nuclear Security […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) can only wait five to seven more years before beginning a potentially costly life-extension program on the megaton-class B83 gravity bomb, a senior agency […]

U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) formally declared initial operational capability of its new Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Enterprise Center (NEC) April 3, which will lay the groundwork for the command […]

Proportionally or by raw dollars, the W80-4 life-extension program would get the biggest increase of any active Department of Energy warhead refurbishment in 2020, if the Trump administration’s budget request […]

A day after the Department of Energy released some 650 pages of details on its $16.5-billion nuclear-weapons budget request for 2020, the chair of the House Appropriations panel that funds […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is seeking $410 million for fiscal 2020 to begin converting a canceled plutonium disposal plant in South Carolina into a factory to produce nuclear-warhead […]

Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) a friend of the Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories who has spent the last two decades on Capitol Hill, on Monday announced he will not […]

To give the Pentagon more money to spend in the future, the U.S. could buy fewer new intercontinental ballistic missiles and again extend its aging fleet of nuclear-tipped Minuteman III […]

The U.S. should modernize its nuclear forces whether it can secure arms control agreements with Russia or not, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee said here Tuesday at […]