Under new direction, Sandia National Laboratories’ Livermore campus continues with its decades-long mission in national security.

ABSTRACT: Five countries in sub-Saharan Africa use nonphysicians to perform major emergency obstetrical surgery. In Tanzania, assistant medical officers provide most of this surgery outside of ...

Looking at the W87's highest yield, it can cause a massive amount of destruction. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, which weren't carried by missiles but were dropped, had an explosive yield of 15 ...

LLNL is building up – new buildings, more employees, more explosive tests – because the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration, and the Department of Defense are funding ...

It will carry W87 mod 0 (300 kt) or mod 1 (475 kt) thermonuclear warheads with ground/air-burst capabilities. With an estimated 13,000 km range, its development costs have surged to $140.9 billion ...

Meanwhile, the Minuteman III primarily employs the original W87. It also still uses, to a lesser extent, the W78 warhead, which packs a 335-350 kiloton payload.

Washington, May 8 (UNI) The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) anticipates the delivery of the first production unit of the B61-13 nuclear bomb as soon as this month, a year sooner than ...

W87-1 As the systems integrator, Sandia facilitates discussions on schedules and activities, including required testing for weapon systems.

According to a presentation from the lab and NNSA officials at the start of the meeting, LLNL currently serves – and will continue to serve – primarily in a research and development capacity for the ...

The pits produced at SRS and LANL will trigger new W87-1 nuclear warheads. What need is there for a new warhead when the old W87-0 has the same safety features?

Here are four takeaways from Tuesday's town hall: 1. The lab successfully built the first new plutonium pit In 2024, Los Alamos made the first production unit for the W87-1 warhead. It was ...