Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD)
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CongressHASC Chair ‘Confident’ Biden Administration Will Consider Minimum-Deterrent Nuclear Arsenal
If Joe Biden wins the White House in the Nov. 3 election, his administration will consider backing off the U.S. nuclear buildup set in place by the Obama administration in […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNorthrop Gets Next-Gen ICBM Contract: $13B Over Nine Years
As expected, the Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] a contract to build the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent, the next generation of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, under a nine-year […]
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Air ForceGBSD Won’t Have Hypersonic Variant, But It Possibly Could One Day, Air Force General Says
Nobody is planning to put a hypersonic glide vehicle on the next silo-based, intercontinental ballistic missile, but that doesn’t mean it could never happen, according to careful statements Wednesday by […]
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Air ForceMinuteman III Test Launch Featured Multiple RVs, Airborne Control Center
Air Force and Navy service members aboard an airplane on Tuesday remotely launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile with three unarmed warheads from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLRSO Might Be Early, Top Air Force Nuke General Says
Two key nuclear delivery systems, the Long Range Standoff Weapon cruise missile and the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile should be ready on time — the cruise […]
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Nuclear ModernizationNuke Weapons Agency Says One Site Could Handle All Warhead Core Work, ‘If Needed’
Confirming what appeared intuitively obvious, the Department of Energy said Tuesday that Los Alamos National Laboratory will have to manufacture 80 nuclear weapon cores year by itself in 2030, if […]
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BudgetFirst GBSD Missiles Might Go Into the Ground With Old Minuteman III Warheads
When the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) arrives to replace the Minuteman III silo-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, the Minuteman III’s old nuclear warheads might go right back into the ground […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSome W87 Warheads Will Go on GBSD Without Getting New Pits First
The Department of Energy and the Pentagon plan deploy W87-0 warheads, without new plutonium pit cores, on some Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missiles, potentially buying the civilian agency more […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Bechtel, Kratos, Get Spots on Northrop Grumman’s GBSD Team
Northrop Grumman [NOC] tapped Bechtel National and Kratos Defense and Security Solutions to provide construction services and specialized transportation equipment for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile […]
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Nuclear ModernizationDrive to Replace Capacitors for Refurbished Nukes Causing Delays for ICBM Fuze Modernization
Complications with the B61-12 and W88 Alt-370 programs might delay production of new intercontinental ballistic missile fuzes at the Department of Energy’s Kansas City National Security Campus by more than […]
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