B61-13: The US’ newest nuclear warhead. Though the number of nuclear weapons has dramatically declined since the end of the Cold War, the US and Russia still have roughly 5,000 ...

work has now started on the B61-13, specifically designed for "certain harder and large-area military targets" in support of ...

Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has shown off the United States' latest nuclear weapon as full production begins seven months ahead of schedule. The B61-13 variable-yield gravity bomb is part of a ...

Sandia, one of the three main research and development laboratories for nuclear munitions, completed the production of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb. The nuclear munition is now fully operational.

“It’s a tremendous accomplishment,” said Rich Otten, a Sandia senior manager involved in the design and production aspects of the B61-12 Life Extension Program. “For more than a ...

Two B61-12 joint test assembly units are prepared for shipping at the Weapon Modernization Lab at Sandia National Laboratories. The last production unit of the nuclear gravity bomb was completed ...

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 ...