The B61, a nuclear gravity bomb deployed by the U.S. Air Force and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces, has been in service since 1968. The B61-12 will replace most older ...

The US spending $1.7 trillion on nuclear modernisation in 30 years and Emmanuel Macron’s reckless offering of a European ...

Sandia National Laboratories announced on Feb. 20, 2025, the conclusion of the production of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb, nearly two months after the LPU (Last Production Unit) was produced in ...

While the last production unit is now complete, the B61-12 program is still producing spare components and pursuing program closeout activities into fiscal year 2026. “It’s a tremendous ...

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

“Last year, we reached the first production units for both the W88 alt 370 sub-launched warhead and B61-12 gravity bomb, and both programs are now in full-scale production and on track to meet ...

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

The Polish president said there’s a need for NATO’s deterrence to shift eastward to Poland following the end of the Cold War.

War has never been good for anyone. It brings massive destruction, affecting several countries in countless ways. World War I and WW II have already proved the length of destruction. But for several ...

We have finally begun emplacing defense-related transuranic (TRU) waste in Panel 8 of #WIPP.