However, the BTF typically takes two bombers on a deployment. In fact, the published photos show two B-52Hs: 60-0044 (cn ...

The weapon "will provide the President with additional nuclear options against certain harder and large-area military targets", the DOE said.

Unlike other members of the B61 family of nuclear bombs that can be carried by fighters and bombers, the B61-13 will be certified only on a strategic bomber based in the U.S., the National Nuclear ...

The B83 is the most powerful nuclear bomb the US has (U.S. Air Force/Master Sgt. Ken Hammond) Sadly the threat of nuclear war has never completely gone away and rising tensions in the world ...

The B83 is the largest nuclear bomb in America’s strategic arsenal, with a yield of 1.2 megatons. Back on January 30, 2025, The National Interest reported on the U.S. Air Force’s long overdue ...

In late October 2023, the Pentagon announced—to the surprise of many, including congressional staffers who work on these issues—that it was pursuing a new nuclear weapon to be known as the B61-13, a ...

NUKEMAP/Alex Wellerstein The most powerful bomb in the current U.S. arsenal, the B83 nuclear gravity bomb, is more than three times the explosive yield of the B61-13 at 1.2 megatons. While the B83 ...

The most powerful bomb, the B83 nuclear gravity bomb, has more than three times the explosive yield of the B61-13 at 1.2 megatons, or 1,200 kilotons. A hypothetical New York City B83 detonation ...

There are two serving types of gravity bombs, the B61 series developed in the 1960s by Los Alamos and the B83. An F-35 fighter jet drops a B61-12 bomb. Of the 13 B61 variants, six are still in ...

It was intended to replace all other gravity bombs including the B83-1, and reduce that element of the nuclear stockpile by 50%, according to a report from the Federation of American Scientists. The ...

The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022. (Airman 1st Class Devan Halstead/U ...