The trial included first-of-its-kind thermal preconditioning of the bomb before carriage on an F-35 fighter jet.
US Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters have completed integration tests with inert B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs, proving ...
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US F-35 drops inert nuclear bomb to show future atomic strike mission capability
A series of successful flight tests at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada has confirmed the performance and reliability of the ...
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Watch the US Air Force load inert nuclear bombs in F-35 for tests
The Energy Department and Air Force in August successfully carried out the first tests dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear ...
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US hails B61-12 nuclear bomb trials as ‘capstone accomplishment’ after F-35A tests
As per the reports released by the lab, the test was conducted from August 19 to August 21 at the Tonopah Test Range in ...
President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.
Sandia National Laboratories announced last Thursday it conducted a flight test of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb on an F-35 ...
We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.
Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President ...
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