Sandia National Laboratories has started to work on the B61-13 nuclear bomb program, as shown in an image of the weapon's first joint test assembly released on its website on Mar. 19, 2025. While it ...

The US is fast-tracking production of its deadliest nuclear weapon in decades — the B61-13 — amid growing fears of global ...

A POWERFUL nuclear weapon that’s 24 times stronger than the bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima is ...

A US F-35A Lightning II performs flight test with an inert B61 tactical/strategic nuclear weapon at USAF Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California Test Range. (Photo: Los Alamos National ...

The B61-13 variable-yield gravity bomb is part of a major program to modernize the American nuclear deterrent. Nuclear weapons may seem like a relic of the Cold War that isn't very pleasant to ...

Why Did America Upgrade the B61, Anyway? Interestingly, it was not Iran’s nuclear threat that likely necessitated the upgrading of America’s B61-12 arsenal. Indeed, it was likely America’s ...

WASHINGTON, October 27. /TASS/. The United States has announced plans to manufacture a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb. "Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that the ...

SNL described the picture saying that an engineer is making “connections on the first B61-13 joint test assembly,” referring to the orange-colored unit on the trolley. The weapon appears ...