The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of ...

In a speech last week, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Jill Hruby, said "the new ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The testing and integration of the B61-12 is one piece of a massive, fleet-wide B-2 upgrade designed to sustain the bomber into ...

On Friday, the Department of Defense announced a new effort to field an updated and even more powerful variant of the B61 series nuclear bomb currently in service. This new ...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has made fresh requests to the government to clarify whether nuclear weapons are at RAF Lakenheath.

OSLO—A hibakusha representing this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate delivered a stark warning against world leaders who rely on nuclear weapons or even threaten to use them. “I am ...

There were no calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons—but this is hardly good news. Longstanding concerns about nuclear weapons—involving the modernization and expansion ...

A previous Pentagon report said China was on track to possess 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030. China has supported Russia, politically and financially during the Ukraine invasion. Under the terms of ...

Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...