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B61-13s will have less than one third the power of the biggest U.S. nuclear weapon - the B83 - which has a yield of 1.2 megatons, 80 times the Hiroshima bomb. Barack Obama tried to retire the B83 ...
Mar 7, 2016 · On 16 July 1945, Trinity – the first nuclear explosion ever – was conducted by the US Army in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico. This successful, experimental trial – resulting in the detonation of a spherical bomb nicknamed 'The Gadget' – ushered in a new nuclear age and arms race, with several nations subsequently developing and detonating their own nuclear weaponry in the ...
May 7, 2024 · The United States is modernizing its nuclear bomber force by upgrading nuclear command-and-control capabilities on existing bombers, developing enhanced nuclear weapons (the B61–12, B61–13, and the new AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff Weapon or LRSO), and designing a new heavy bomber (the B-21 Raider).
Nov 2, 2015 · November 2, 2015 1:00 PM EST. O n Nov. 1, 1952—63 years ago this week—the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb, resulting in the first successful full-scale thermonuclear weapon explosion ...
Oct 27, 2023 · The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022. (Airman 1st Class Devan Halstead/U ...
Dec 1, 2023 · This article is part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal. T he point of the thing was to forever change our concept of ...
On September 23, 1992, under the surface of the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducted its 1,030th--and last--nuclear weapon test explosion. At the time, there were serious questions about whether the United States could indefinitely extend the service lives of its nuclear warheads without regular nuclear testing.
