WASHINGTON, July 16. /TASS/. The United States is developing the first guided nuclear gravity bomb, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists told TASS after the tests two weeks ago of the B61-12 bomb, which did not have a warhead.
While the statement of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), part of the United States Department of Energy, portrays "the drop test as just a refurbishment to maintain the B61 bomb, it actually involves development of the US Air Force's first guided nuclear gravity bomb," Hans Kristensen has said.
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