Warhead & Weapons Development

The strike at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant that has sent 860 production workers to the picket line is now at nine days, and International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 778 and plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies will meet for a second time with a federal mediator today. […]

Union officials representing striking production workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant and contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies met with a federal mediator yesterday, but no resolution was reached as the strike stretched into its 10th day, according to statements issued by the union and Honeywell. The plant contractor appears to be […]

The Pantex Plant is on the verge of completing the dismantlement of one of the largest nuclear weapons in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, the B53 nuclear bomb, and will commemorate the milestone next week in Amarillo, Texas. The plant began dismantling the B53 a year ago, and although only several dozen were believed to remain […]

The ongoing labor dispute at the Kansas City Plant took an ugly turn late last week as plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against the striking union at the plant, alleging that union workers “accosted” the driver of a delivery vehicle last […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration said late last week that the last nuclear weapon used by the Army has been completely dismantled. The agency said that the Y-12 National Security Complex had completed the dismantlement of components used in the W70 warhead, which was deployed on the Lance mobile artillery tactical missile system. The Lance […]

Striking production workers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant are raising questions about the safety of the plant’s aging Bannister Federal Complex home after a pipe burst last week at the facility. With tension between the union and plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies increasing, union officials say water and sludge […]

The National Nuclear Security Administration has dismantled the nation’s last remaining B53 nuclear bomb, completing the removal of the massive bomb from the nation’s nuclear arsenal. The agency completed the dismantlement during a ceremony at its Pantex Plant yesterday, removing the high explosives from the plutonium pit on one remaining B53 bomb and detonating the […]

As the Kansas City Plant production strike stretches into its third week, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies President Chris Gentile said the plant contractor is considering all options to help the plant continue to meet its production requirements, and he didn’t discount bringing in workers from outside the plant. “We’ve got a contingency plan that […]

Kansas City Plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies has begun bringing in temporary workers as union production workers at the plant continue to strike over concerns about proposed changes to the union’s labor contract. Honeywell said that 130 temporary workers are being brought in from a support contractor to perform maintenance and custodial work […]