Sandia National Laboratories and the nuclear security enterprise have achieved a significant milestone for the nation’s ...

The B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb’s life extension program has “fully transitioned into the stockpile” after its last production unit was produced in ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of people on sidewalks, playgrounds, or stairs. "Hibakusha" - this term ...

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of ...

MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The B61-12, a US nuclear bomb, when authorized for service, may lower the threshold of using nuclear weapons, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non ...