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

has completed the modernization of B61-12 nuclear bombs. The measures taken were aimed at extending their service life. These bombs have replaced the previously used variants, namely B61-3 ...

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

The B61-12’s First Production Unit (FPU) was delivered in 2021, with full-rate production starting a year later. The B61, a nuclear gravity bomb deployed by the U.S. Air Force and North Atlantic ...

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 ...

Two B61-12 joint test assembly units are prepared for shipping at the Weapon Modernization Lab at Sandia National Laboratories. The last production unit of the nuclear gravity bomb was completed ...

The B61-12 is the latest version of the B61 nuclear weapon that was introduced in the 1960s. The program is supposed to supplant four B61 variants - B61-3, B61-4, B61-7, and B61-10 - by ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA ... the design will also enable consolidation and replacement of the existing B61-3, -4, -7, and -10 bombs by the B61-12 bomb. The LEP will reuse or ...

The US had previously removed nuclear bombs from this airbase in 2008. However, it is now deploying the B61-12 thermonuclear bomb, a newly developed and highly advanced weapon. This bomb is ...

The gravity bomb in this case is called a B61-12, and it's designed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Sandia Labs and able to carry nuclear explosives. But it's not ...