As part of this, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) was tasked in 2023 at a cost of US$92 million with building a new nuclear gravity bomb called the B61-13.

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II is "significantly ahead of schedule," according to U.S ...

Over the past months, the U.S. Air Force added another potent weapon to its arsenal: a new nuclear bomb, having recently completed production at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrence forces on high alert as Moscow's forces poured into Ukraine in early 2022, and the Kremlin's veteran foreign minister, Sergey ...

the bomb is a key addition to the US arsenal. Amidst growing concerns over nuclear conflict, particularly with Russia-Europe tensions and Middle East instability, world leaders are on high alert.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stressed Wednesday during an address in Tehran that his country is “not after a nuclear bomb” and expressed ... with the threat of military intervention ...