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 ...

"The new B61-12 gravity bombs are fully forward deployed," said Jill Hruby, administrator for the National Nuclear Security ...

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 ...

to serve alongside the around 50 B61-11 bunker buster nuclear weapons. The weapon was planned to become the only remaining gravity delivered nuke in the inventory, at least until the B61-13 was ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Pantex Deterrence LLC (PXD), the manager and operator of the Pantex Plant outside of Amarillo, announced Tuesday the completion of the last ...

This B61-12 nuclear bomb, an upgraded version of the earlier B61 thermonuclear gravity bomb, is one America’s oldest and most important nuclear weapons, which has been its nuclear arsenal since ...

The latest modification of the original bomb, the B61-12 is a twelve-foot-long, approximately 825-pound, air-launched nuclear gravity bomb that utilizes an inertial navigation system (INS ...

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

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system. … The great power battle for dominance over hypersonics has a new twist ...

Accordingly, the U.S. Air Force’s (USAF) gravity bomb arsenal is finally receiving ... Army’s (PLA’s) underground nuclear facilities. The B61’s -11 variant has this deep penetration ...