B61 Modernization Enters Production Engineering Phase

Credit: B-2: USAF
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s $7.3 billion rejuvenation of the B61, America’s 1960s-vintage thermonuclear bomb, has entered the “production engineering” phase after four years of development work, with the first refurbished unit expected by fiscal 2020. The bomb, which will...

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