Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

At Sandia

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Lab Completes Flight, Drop Tests on W88 Nuclear Warhead
NS&D Monitor
10/31/2014
Sandia National Laboratories has successfully completed flight and drop tests for a new variation of the W88 nuclear warhead, the lab said this week. The flight and drop tests…

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U.S. Nuclear Experts Attach Little Significance to Putin’s Call for Further Arms Reductions

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Decision on Kansas City Plant Contract Coming ‘Very Soon,’ NNSA Chief Says

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G4S Government Solutions to be Bought by Private Equity Firm

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DNFSB Vote Records Offer Insight Into Board Deliberations, Operations

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CNS Awards Subcontract to Bechtel National For UPF Construction

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PEC Adds to Protest of DOE HSS Support Services Contract

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CB&I Names New MOX Project Manager as Trice Moves to Corporate Post

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IG: DOE Should Keep Strengthening Cybersecurity Program

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ATK Reviewing Merger with Orbital after Failed Rocket Launch

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At Savannah River

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Disarmament Groups Call for U.S. Participation in Humanitarian Impacts Conference

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U.S. Votes Against Measure on Reducing High-Alert Status of Nukes in U.N. Commission Session

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At Pantex

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At Oak Ridge

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Wrap Up: On the International Front, In the Air Force, In the Navy, In the NGOs

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