Upgraded sub-launched nuclear warhead program wraps production
The last production unit of the W88 Alt 370, an upgraded version of the legacy W88 used on Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, has rolled off the line.
United Kingdom reveals ‘sovereign’ nuclear warhead name: Astraea
The future warhead to replace submarine-launched Trident systems will be developed as a "sovereign" capability and "in parallel" with the US W93/Mk7 warhead, according to the Defence Nuclear Enterprise Command Paper.
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Updated B61 nuclear warhead enters production
The new B61-12, with replaced or refurbished components, will be used by the F-15, F-16 and B-2, among others.
HASC Adds NC3 Funds; Wants Talks With Russia, China
HASC calls on Pentagon for "near- and long-term plans and options to ensure resilience" of the nuclear command, control and communications network, including requirements for survivability and protection of the supply chain.
What Trump’s First Nuclear Posture Review Should Do
If we’re lucky, the fourth Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) will encourage a reawakening of strategic analysis and renewed efforts to assess the role of nuclear weapons in US national security. If we’re not, and this is more likely, we’ll find ourselves awash in time-worn arguments about assured destruction, limited war, arms limitation, modernization, and morality. […]
10 Reasons The US Should Build New Nuclear Missiles, GBSD
CORRECTED: Minuteman Was First Solid-Fueled ICBM; Jon Wolfsthal’s name The first solid-fueled InterContinental Ballistic Missile, Minuteman 1, was deployed some 55 years ago on the same day that President Kennedy announced that Soviet missiles were being deployed in Cuba. At the end of the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy credited the newly deployed Minuteman ICBM as his “ace […]
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
Chinese Sanctions On North Korea? Expert Doubts They’ll Bite
WASHINGTON: President Trump was pretty excited when he announced that the central Chinese bank ordered the cessation of all financial business with North Korea. Dean Cheng, the Heritage Foundation’s expert on China and its military, is much less excited. Cheng’s much more skeptical that this latest Chinese move will make any long-term difference in the […]
Why America Needs A Nuclear Air Launched Cruise Missile
UPDATED: We Run Op-Ed; Pentagon Announces LRSO Contract The Pentagon just awarded the third major contract in the modernization of the nuclear triad. First came the B-21 bomber. Then the Columbia-class submarine, to replace the Ohio class boomers. Two days ago they awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to begin work on the new version […]
Preparing for The Next War in Korea
Preparing for war can sometimes help prevent one, and those preparations are probably helpful if one does start. Perhaps it’s time to show North Korea what its forces would be in for, and to show our allies in the South that we are with them, seriously. The best course may be through field exercises conducted jointly by […]
Beef Up Conventional Forces; Don’t Worry About A Tactical Nuke Gap
At the end of this week, thousands of experts in one of humanity’s most terrible possibilities — nuclear war — will meet here in Washington to discuss how to avoid what they have spent their careers planning to do, in hopes they never will. Michael Krepon, one of America’s most experienced practitioners of the arcane art of […]
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Our Nukes Cost More Than You Think; Stimson Pegs Annual Nuke Spending At $31B
The defense budget is going down…have you heard? The presidential campaign is shedding a lot of heat, but very little light on this reality; you won’t hear much of substance about how or where it will go down. Or much sensible or reasonable discussion about how we manage a defense build-down in a way that […]