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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Department of Energy nuclear-weapon site closest to a major metropolitan area, is preparing for another month of stay-at-home orders in surrounding Alameda County, Calif., […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration might lose political support in Congress if the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia lapses, the immediate past head of the semi-autonomous nuclear […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] on Wednesday reported a solid increase in sales in the first quarter on increases across its operating sectors, although net income barely edged up as a pension […]

The Pantex Plant assembled the “first production capability unit” of the W88 Alt-370 submarine-launched warhead, a precursor to the first production unit intended to prove the entire warhead design is […]

The Department of State on Friday framed deployment of a low-yield warhead aboard U.S. submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles as a means of preventing a nuclear arms race. The agency’s 10-page, […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) gave a small business in Georgia a roughly $240,000 fixed-price contract to provide almost a quarter-million, China-made N95-style respirator masks for its contractor and […]

Two more people at the Department of Energy’s Forrestal Building headquarters in Washington, D.C., have tested positive for COVID-19, Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette said Friday. One employee has not […]

Despite keen awareness of the threats posed by drones, airports and other large facilities are currently reluctant to purchase counter-drone security systems due to a lack of clarity about regulation, […]

A top Defense Department official 0n Tuesday said the department expects to conduct a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA flight test against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-representative threat this summer. […]

Not much sooner than Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette provided the guidance for doing so, the agency’s semi-autonomous nuclear-weapons agency added language to prime contracts enabling operators of nuclear weapons sites […]