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25 paź 2023 · By the 2030s, the United States for the first time will need to deter two major nuclear powers, each of whom will field modern and diverse global and regional nuclear forces.
From digital displays on bomber aircraft to advanced early-warning sensors and machine-learning-enabled nuclear options planning tools, this U.S. nuclear weapons recapitalization, like past modernizations, will be a product of its time.
17 paź 2024 · In 1994, the Army began to develop the Crusader, an advanced self-propelled 155-millimeter (mm) howitzer and an accompanying resupply vehicle.
15 mar 2019 · In "Strategic Prime: Nuclear Weapons Modernization," the American Foreign Policy Council continues its efforts to inform the America public and America's elected leaders in Washington about...
Nuclear weapons take advantage of fission and/or fusion of atomic nuclei, which atom-for-atom produce more than a million times more energy than the most powerful conventional explosives. That is why the power of nuclear weapons are measured in thousands of tons (kilotons) or millions of tons (megatons) of TNT equivalent. WHAT IS A NUCLEAR WEAPON?
6 maj 2024 · The United States is modernizing its nuclear bomber force by upgrading nuclear command-and-control capabilities on existing bombers, developing enhanced nuclear weapons (the B61–12, B61–13, and the new AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff Weapon or LRSO), and designing a new heavy bomber (the B-21 Raider).
Funding for US weapons programs, procurement/production, and sustainment of a nuclear mission show a significant downtrend. Nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship is the current process for managing our nuclear arsenal. This includes active surveillance of the US stockpile. We continue to operate and maintain nuclear weapons in a constantly ...
