ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories is transforming how it assesses nuclear weapons in a stockpile made up of weapons at different stages in their lifecycles -- some systems that ...

Sandia National Laboratories has helped develop a huge machine to test old weapons and validate future designs. America hasn't produced nuclear warheads since the 1980s.

It’s a peaceful time of day at 5:29 a.m. Quiet. In that predawn moment 80 years ago, Allen Sánchez said, his grandfather was milking cows in Tomé. A light appeared as the first test of a nuclear ...

Sandia is responsible for non-nuclear components in all U.S. weapons systems and for overall system engineering and integration: pulling thousands of components together into a weapon.

Sandia still uses the sled today to show how the latest nuclear bomb, the B61-12, would penetrate a hardened target. ... Nuclear weapons don’t explode when they’re not supposed to, ...

To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two multiyear initiatives to ...

Jun. 18—Sandia National Laboratories heralded a milestone at the end of May: the first of a new type of nuclear gravity bomb was built ahead of schedule. The first B61-13 production unit was ...

"Cold War Warriors" traces nuclear weapons testing from the first nuclear detonation in southern New Mexico in 1945 to the final test in September 1992. Buteau narrates, but the story is told largely ...

If we are to believe the reports of the Pentagon, the United States has now deprived Iran of its ability to produce nuclear ...

Earlier this year Sandia National Laboratories fired a nuclear warhead out of a cannon in New Mexico as part of a program to improve the longevity and effectiveness of the US nuclear stockpile.

The war between Israel and Iran and President Donald Trump’s strikes on Iranian nuclear sites have brought renewed attention to where global nuclear stockpiles are kept.