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The U.S. military lags behind both Russia and China in building and fielding low-yield nuclear weapons and needs to address that gap by fielding a nuclear sea-launched cruise missile, the head of U.S. Strategic Command told Congress on Thursday. Air Fo…
Facing expanding mandates for information security at the two big nuclear-weapon production sites it manages, Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) has launched a hiring spree for qualified information technology and cybersecurity experts. Over the past …
Russia’s suspension last week of the world’s biggest bilateral nuclear-weapons treaty is not official yet and Moscow was still talking to the State Department about the treaty as of Monday, a senior agency official said. “The suspension hasn’t been off…
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said Tuesday Russia will “suspend” its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty but adhere to the treaty’s limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons. Media widely reported Putin’s remarks. The…
A nearly two year-old federal lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) planned plutonium-pit plant in South Carolina should enter its final stages this summer, recent court filings show. In a s…
Upgrades to a nuclear-weapon test facility in Nevada are falling further behind schedule, government officials and weapon-site managers said Wednesday. Officially called Enhanced Capability for Subcritical Experiments (ECSE), the upgrades involve expan…
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was set to fire the first test in its Nimble series of subcritical experiments in the late summer, a senior lab official said Wednesday. “The first one [called Nob Hill] is scheduled for August of this year, t…
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said on Feb. 16 that it executed wind tunnel tests of its LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM for the U.S. Air Force. “Using scaled models of the vehicle, stressed under environments from sub to hypersonic speeds, the robust test campaig…
The Los Alamos National Laboratory might still be able to make 30 nuclear-weapon cores before 2030, even though the equipment needed to do it is not supposed to be ready until then, the lab’s director said Tuesday. In January, the lab’s owner, the Depa…
With delays piling up for its two planned plutonium pit factories, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) already believes it will have to exceed the military’s minimum annual order for the nuclear weapon cores, the head of the agency said…