The W76-2 is a small, tactical nuclear warhead designed to counter enemy tactical nuclear weapons. The warhead is actually derived from the existing W76 warhead, each of which is large enough to ...

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The U.S. Department of Energy has started making a new, low-yield nuclear weapon designed to counter Russia. The National Nuclear Security Administration says production of the weapon, known as the ...

An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739) off the coast of California. The W76-1 nuclear warhead is designed to go aboard the ...

The Trump administration's new nuclear warhead, a low-yield variety meant to provide a new layer of nuclear deterrence, has been fielded for the first time. WASHINGTON — A new nuclear warhead ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Whether the W76-2 improves American security is much more about psychology than technology. (This article first appeared in December 2019.) It was a small, ...

The W76-2 warhead is a new, low-yield nuclear weapon The Pentagon believes other countries—especially Russia—could use low-yield nukes early in a conflict, so it needs its own. The W76-2 has an ...

Washington — The U.S. military has deployed an addition to its nuclear arsenal — a long-range missile armed with a nuclear warhead of reduced destructive power. The so-called low-yield missile joins ...

The Trump administration, in a closely held memo to lawmakers this spring, justified developing the first new U.S. atomic weapon since the Cold War by citing vulnerabilities and risks in the current ...

It was a small, obscure-sounding item in the 2020 defense budget—a mere $19.6 million to procure W76-2 warheads, a sum which could pay for just one quarter of a single F-35A stealth fighter. But it, ...

April 6, 2011: Britain will also use the W76-1 upgrade to the older W76 nuclear warhead, as older generations of nuclear warheads are updated, before they become dysfunctional from old age. Previous ...

The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration—the agency under the U.S. Department of Energy responsible for the production and maintenance of the country’s nuclear arsenal—announced that the ...