The AF&F is the difference between the W88 being a nuclear weapon and a radioactive lump of iron. The AF&F assembly is the system that receives and confirms the GO code from the US President, ...

Sandia National Laboratories and its nuclear security enterprise partners recently completed the first production unit of a weapon assembly responsible for key operations of the W88 nuclear warhead.

A development flight test for the W88 Alt 370. Although the Defense Department has publicly described the new components as a routine engineering improvement to the W88 series of warheads, those ...

Delays to the B61-12 and W88 Alt 370 could cost taxpayers a lot of money, ... The F-35 is expected to go through certification on the weapon at some point in the next decade.

The United States hasn't fielded a new nuclear weapon since 1988 and its deterrent arsenal is the oldest in the world. ... The W88 is one of the United State’s primary nuclear weapons.

The U.S. has finally got its W88 nuclear warhead updated and ready to fire, after more than 10 years of development. The new W88 Alt 370 received an improved, redesigned AF&F (Arming, Fuzing, and ...

The W88 has a yield of about 475 kilotons and is considered the most sophisticated thermonuclear weapon in the U.S. stockpile. Each of the 24 missiles on an Ohio-class nuclear submarine can carry ...

WASHINGTON ― The United States’ B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb may face an 18 month delay during production, with the W88 submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead facing a shorter delay, a ...

With the last generation of nuclear weapons designed in the 1980s, engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory produced the W88, weighing only 800 pounds despite having an explosive force equal to ...

The NNSA originally estimated the upgrade cost for the W88 to be between $2.4 billion and $3.1 billion, and for upgrades to be delivered in December 2019. The NNSA budgeted between $7.3 and $9.5 ...