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W80-4 Had ‘Nominal’ Flight Test Last Week, Sandia Director Said

Sarah Salem

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

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James Peery, director of Sandia National Laboratories, told sister publication The Exchange Monitor Monday that the W80-4 had its first flight test on the Long Range Standoff Missile last week. Peery spoke with the Monitor after speaking at a panel at the ExchangeMonitor’s Annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit with Kim Budil, director at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Thom Mason, director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “I was waiting for this for a couple of years,” Peery told the Monitor, “and…

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