Stockpile Stewardship

Nightshade B Subcritical Test Fired

By Photo of Dan Leone

WASHINGTON — Personnel at the Nevada National Security Site have fired the second in a series of three planned subcritical plutonium tests called Nightshade, the acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said this week.
Charles Verdon, the agency’s…

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