Updated around 8:50 p.m.: It has been confirmed that the Y-12 emergency response operation has ended, according to Communications Manager Taz Painter…
Fire ‘involving Uranium’ Breaks Out at Tennessee National Security Complex…
A fire ‘involving uranium’ broke out at a National Security Complex in Tennessee with all staff being evacuated from the site…
The World’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon Just Rolled Off the Assembly Line…
Last month, the National Nuclear Security Administration (formerly the Atomic Energy Commission) announced that the first of a new generation of strategic nuclear weapons had rolled off the assembly line at its Pantex nuclear weapons plant in the panhandle of Texas. That warhead, the W76-2, is designed to be fitted to a submarine-launched Trident missile, a weapon […]
Defense Bill Would End Trump Administration’s Direct Control of Nuclear Agency…
A bill being negotiated in Congress would essentially end the Trump administration’s direct supervision of an agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. The Senate-approved bill would remove the National Nuclear Security Administration from direct control of the Energy Department, where it’s been since its creation in 2000, and empower it to act nearly […]