The Department of Defense announced on Friday, October 27, that the US is set to commence work on a new variant of the B61 gravity nuclear bomb. The weapon will be designated as B61-13 ...

In October, the Pentagon announced that it was working on building a new nuclear bomb to replace America's aging stockpile.

WASHINGTON, October 27. /TASS/. The United States has announced plans to manufacture a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb. "Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced that the ...

The gravity bomb in this case is called a B61-12, and it's designed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Sandia Labs and able to carry nuclear explosives. But it's not ...

America’s most recent mod, the B61-13 will be a “gravity bomb” variant of this potent and enduring weapon. A gravity bomb is a nuke that is dropped from a nuclear-capable warplane that is ...

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MOSCOW, August 29. /TASS/. The B61-12, a US nuclear bomb, when authorized for service, may lower the threshold of using nuclear weapons, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non ...

One trillion dollars wrong. That's because in November 2015, a fighter jet dropped an unarmed "nuclear gravity bomb" at a Nevada test range called the B61-12, a new weapon costing around $8.1 billion.