The redesign of the B61 bomb, the oldest nuclear weapon, offers a lesson in the high costs of maintaining the arsenal and illustrates the ongoing debate. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

The star of the latest good news story is the B61-13 nuclear gravity bomb. The Story of the B61 Bomb Back on January 30, 2025, I wrote an article for TNI titled “ America’s B61 Nuclear Gravity ...

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The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on May 19, 2025, that production of the first B61-13 variant nuclear bomb has been completed at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas. The ...

The B61-13 is a tactical guided bomb designed to destroy hardened, deeply buried military targets. It is part of the B61 series, a key part of the existing U.S. stockpile, ...

The maximum yield of the B61-4 and B61-12 is 50 kilotons, making every dialed-up bomb greater in explosive force than the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. This is a B61-12 bomb being ...

The B61-12 guided nuclear gravity bomb has gone through its first series of tests on the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber.. The Air Force, together with the Department of Energy's National Nuclear ...

The bomb will be made by a B61-7 warhead inside a B61-12 casing, providing another option with a higher yield. The U.S. Department of Defense announced ...

The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about a 15-kiloton bomb. The DoD fact sheet released in October 2023 said the "B61-13 will have a yield similar to the B61-7, which is higher than that of ...

The load is 24 times larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, which was about a 15 kiloton bomb. The B61-13 would also be about 14 times larger than the bomb dropped ...

Gen. C. Robert Kehler has been telling anyone who will listen that the clock is ticking on the B61 bomb. It was designed in the 1960s to be dropped from NATO's strategic bombers and tactical ...