Nuclear weapons engineers Sandia National Laboratories have shown off assembly of the B61-13 unit and cited putting "an aggressive set of plans in motion" to expedite the project.

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 ...

But the nuclear weapons work is commonly viewed as "extremely low risk" financially, as a top National Nuclear Security Administration official said in an October 2009 email to executives at Sandia.

Sandia National Laboratories recently completed the renovation of five large-scale test facilities that are crucial to ensuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons systems.

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.

But with the oil crisis of the mid-1970s, Sandia-California scientists carried the tools and knowledge of fluids that they gained from working with hydrogen in nuclear weapons to studying internal ...

Sandia National Laboratories rocketed a semi-truck into a new tractor trailer built to safely transport nuclear weapons this summer, the lab announced earlier this month. In its largest crash test ...

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.

Albuquerque residents may be hearing more big booms and seeing more bright flashes soon as part of Sandia National Laboratories ongoing effort to keep the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile in tip ...

Solder isn't the first thing that comes to mind as essential to a nuclear weapon. But since weapons contain hundreds of thousands of solder joints, each potentially a point of failure, Sandia ...

Spending on nuclear weapons hasn’t seen an increase this large since the Cold War, said Greg Mello, executive director of the Los Alamos Study Group. “This is an arms race,” Mello said ...

What would LANL and New Mexico look like if the lab only focused on nuclear weapons? A proposal in Project 2025 is proposing just that. What might Project 2025 mean for N.M.?