The United States has unexpectedly accelerated its nuclear weapons programme, kickstarting the production of its latest nuclear bomb, the B61-13, a whopping seven months ahead of schedule.

What makes the B61-12 particularly impressive is the bomb’s ability to adjust its destructive yield depending on the operational conditions and demands. Over the past months, the U.S. Air Force ...

Why Did America Upgrade the B61, Anyway? Interestingly, it was not Iran’s nuclear threat that likely necessitated the upgrading of America’s B61-12 arsenal. Indeed, it was likely America’s ...

SNL wrote it used “innovative program planning” to accelerate the production of its B61-13 bomb and it is seven months ahead of schedule. That decision came in response to “a critical challe ...

The United States has fast-tracked production of one of the most powerful nuclear weapons in its arsenal to date, the B61-13 gravity bomb — a weapon so potent it boasts a yield 24 times more ...

The US has started making a nuclear bomb seven months before planned. The world-ending B61-13 nuclear weapon unit can carry a devastating 360-kiloton bomb, making it 24 times more powerful than ...

SNL described the picture saying that an engineer is making “connections on the first B61-13 joint test assembly,” referring to the orange-colored unit on the trolley. The weapon appears ...

WASHINGTON, October 27. /TASS/. The United States has announced plans to manufacture a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb. "Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that the ...