Here’s this week’s collection of quick-hit news about, and with implications for, U.S. nuclear security.
Like almost everything else, support for a B61-12 flight test from an F-35A had to go virtual this year, according to a press release from Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia helped train Air Force personnel virtually in preparation for an April flight test with a non-explosive dummy mock-up of the B61-12, which will homogenize four older versions of the B61 gravity bomb. The first production unit is supposed to be done in November 2021, about a year from now.
The Ruby supercomputer is up and running at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the weapons design lab said this week.
The Ruby cluster, supported by lab partners Intel, Supermicro and Cornelis Networks, will do non-classified stockpile stewardship work, according to Livermore’s press release.
Los Alamos National Laboratories and New Mexico State University have hashed out an agreement that would allow personnel to hold joint appointments to the two institutions, according to a press release this week.
Those interested need permission of their associate lab director or dean.
