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Nuclear Modernization

NNSA Finishes Mods For Cruise Missile Warhead

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 17th, 2017

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The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has refurbished the first in a line of nuclear warheads that will be used on an aging fleet of U.S. cruise missiles well into next decade.The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear stockpile steward completed the first production unit of the W80-1 Alt 369 “before fiscal year 2017 came to a close,” Brig. Gen. Michael Lutton, the NNSA’s principal assistant deputy administrator for military application, said in a Tuesday press release.An NNSA spokesperson in Washington…

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