The B61-13 variable yield gravity bomb is going into full production seven months ahead of schedule, according to a statement by the Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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 ...

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II is "significantly ahead of schedule," according to U.S ...

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.

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are kickstarting development of the B61-13, a nuclear 'gravity bomb' that was originally slated to go into production for the US Air Force ...

The B61-13 variable-yield gravity bomb is part of a major program to modernize the American nuclear deterrent. Nuclear weapons may seem like a relic of the Cold War that isn't very pleasant to ...

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 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 ...

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 United States has ramped up production of the bone-chilling B61-13 bomb seven months ahead of schedule in an "aggressive" move to keep up with global powers. Last week, Sandia National ...