U.S. Eliminates Last Nuclear Artillery Shell
END OF AN ERA More than 46 years after adding nuclear artillery shells to the U.S. weapons inventory, the Energy Dept.'s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has dismantled the last of such rounds. The W-79, to be fired by 8-in. artillery, was stored at NNSA's Amarillo, Tex.-based Pantex...
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