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Nuclear Modernization

DOE Has Started Building Low-Yield Sub Warhead

Friday, January 25th, 2019

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DOE Has Started Building Low-Yield Sub Warhead

An artist's rendering of the U.S. Navy's future Columbia-class submarine. (Image: U.S. Navy )

The Department of Energy said Friday it has started building the first low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead ordered by the Donald Trump administration last year. “The Pantex Plant has initiated assembly of the W76-2 First Production Unit,” a spokesperson for the agency's semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) wrote in response to a Defense Daily query. “NNSA is on track to complete the W76-2 Initial Operational Capability warhead quantity and deliver the units to the Navy by the end of…

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