The US Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration announced plans to dispose of the B83-1 thermonuclear bomb at least six years ago. Then-US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz ...

Among these are the B61-12, recently modernized, and the imposing B83, considered the most powerful still in operation. + The United States Completes Modernization of the B61-12 Nuclear Bomb With ...

On July 16, 1945, at exactly 5:29:45 a.m., the world entered the atomic age, with the successful testing of the most powerful weapon known to man. "Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot ...