seventeen years after starting the design process, that production of the most recent American tactical nuclear weapon, the B61-12, has been completed. The Last Production Unit (LPU) of the B61-12 ...

Iran would have to design and assemble a weapon, integrate it with a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, and successfully test it. We are in a short-term holding pattern as ...

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...

The latest modification of the original bomb, the B61-12 is a twelve-foot-long, approximately 825-pound, air-launched nuclear gravity ... and 17 years after its design and development was first ...

The government is facing fresh demands to disclose whether US nuclear weapons are on British soil. It comes as a senior American official confirmed the deployment of a new generation of bombs had ...

The B61-12 is a modernized version of the B61, a family of thermonuclear gravity bombs that has been part of the U.S. military stockpile since 1968. Described as the most expensive nuclear bomb ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

A plane crash released two nuclear bombs over North Carolina in 1961, historians said. Screengrab from the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources on Facebook Two nuclear bombs fell from the ...